SUPREME COURT REJECTS BID TO RESTORE ALABAMA ABORTION LAW/ Georgia abortion providers file federal suit today p. 3

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Supreme Court rejects bid to restore Alabama abortion law

Thank you, Justice Thomas

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case on a 2015 Alabama abortion law that bans a common form of the procedure during the second trimester of pregnancy.

Alabama had sought to overturn lower court rulings that struck down the law, but the justices rejected that bid in their order.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that he agreed the court should not hear the case, but called it a "stark reminder that our abortion jurisprudence has spiraled out of control."

"Although this case does not present the opportunity to address our demonstrably erroneous 'undue burden' standard, we cannot continue blinking the reality of what this court has wrought," Thomas wrote.



In the concurring opinion, Thomas indicated that he would have ruled in favor of upholding the 2015 Alabama law, writing that the "notion that anything the in the Constitution prevents states from passing laws prohibiting the dismembering of a living child is implausible." Alabama lawmakers behind the law had referred to the procedure as "dismemberment."

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