Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Does Texas' new Abortion Law Violate Free Speech?

A second speech case is in the news today, in this case an injunction of the enforcement of a recently passed Texas law requiring doctors to show sonograms to women seeking abortions was overturned. The injunction was imposed since challenges to the law are going forward in the courts. Opponents argued that the law infringes on the free speech rights of doctors and allows the state to intervene in the doctor - patient relationship.

File this under civil liberties, checks and balances and the judiciary.