Myron Thompson

Federal judge blocks Alabama abortion law (2019)

A federal judge blocked a law prohibiting abortions in the state except those necessary to prevent a serious health risk to the woman from going into effect on October 29, 2019.

Judge Myron Thompson issued an injunction against House Bill 314, which prohibited abortions in the state except those necessary to prevent a serious health risk to the woman. The law reclassified performing an abortion as a felony punishable with up to 99 years in prison for doctors performing it.^[2] The law was set to take effect on November 15, 2019.

“The court is persuaded that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in showing that the Act violates an individual’s constitutional right to obtain a pre-viability abortion, and thus that it violates her constitutional rights,” Thompson said in his order.

"Abortion remains legal in Alabama," said Randall Marshall, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama. "The state’s repeated attempts to push abortion out of reach by enacting unconstitutional laws restricting abortions have already cost taxpayers nearly $2.5 million. This ill-advised law will cost taxpayers more money."

“The district court’s decision to grant the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction of Alabama’s 2019 abortion law as to pre-viability abortions was not unexpected," said Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. "As we have stated before, the State’s objective is to advance our case to the U.S. Supreme Court where we intend to submit evidence that supports our argument that Roe and Casey were wrongly decided and that the Constitution does not prohibit states from protecting unborn children from abortion.”

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See also

• United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
• United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit

External links

• Judge Thompson's biography from the Federal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
Active judges	Chief Judge: Emily Coody Marks   •  R. Austin Huffaker
Senior judges	William Albritton  •  William Watkins (Alabama)  •  Myron Thompson  •
Magistrate judges	Susan Walker  •  Charles Coody  •  Stephen Doyle  •  Jerusha Adams  •  Kelly Pate  •
Former Article III judges	Mark Fuller  •  Truman McGill Hobbs Sr. (Alabama federal district court judge)  •  William Crawford (Alabama)  •  John Gayle  •  William Giles Jones  •  Richard Busteed  •  George Washington Lane  •  John Bruce  •  Joel Dubina  •  Thomas Goode Jones (Alabama)  •  Henry De Lamar Clayton  •  Charles Brents Kennamer  •  Ira De Ment  •  Thomas Pittman  •  Robert Varner  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •  Andrew Brasher  •
Former Chief judges	Mark Fuller  •  Truman McGill Hobbs Sr. (Alabama federal district court judge)  •  William Albritton  •  Myron Thompson  •  Robert Varner  •  Frank M. Johnson, Jr.  •

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