Judge temporarily halts 24-hour abortion waiting period, reversal law

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Pool photo by John Hanna, Associated Press. District Judge Christopher Jayaram hears oral arguments on the constitutionality of state abortion law.

A Johnson County judge on Monday agreed to temporarily block the state's 24-hour waiting period for abortions as well as a new law passed this year requiring physicians to notify women that their drug-induced abortion can be reversed.

Johnson Count District Judge Christopher Jayaram issued a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing broad sections of the Women's Right to Know law, which was first enacted in 1997 and has been amended six times since.

The order temporarily blocked parts of a law that . . .

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