Judge Rejects Abortion Settlement
A federal judge on Thursday rejected an agreement between Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and the state Attorney General’s Office over the interpretation of a state law that limits medication-induced abortions.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb, in a written opinion, said that she could not approve the agreement because it asks her to interpret a state statute over which she doesn’t have jurisdiction, instead of addressing a question of federal law.
The agreement as submitted, Crabb wrote, doesn’t resolve the claim that Planned Parenthood made in its lawsuit, that the statute is unconstitutionally vague and leaves doctors open to prosecution for unwittingly violating the law.
“As laudable as (this) effort by the parties to try to attain an expeditious resolution to the case is, I am not free to disregard limits on a federal court’s authority,” Crabb wrote.
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