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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. 鈥� The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denied today the 老澳门开奖结果 and the Center for Reproductive Rights鈥� request for en banc rehearing of an August 2020 decision that paved the way for Arkansas abortion restrictions to go into effect.

With this order, the four Arkansas laws at issue in the case could go into effect as soon as Dec. 22. Absent further court intervention, that would completely block many people from obtaining abortion care, and would leave the state with even more limited access to abortion. These laws are just four of the more than 480 restrictions states have passed on abortion since 2011. These four laws were passed to:

• Ban the standard method of abortion provided after approximately 14 weeks of pregnancy in Arkansas;
• Require that patients鈥� partners or other family members be notified of their abortion;
• Force the health care center to report a teenage patient鈥檚 abortion to local police and allow the state crime lab to indefinitely hold their personal medical information; and
• Force physicians to request a vast number of medical records for each patient with no medical justification, violating physician-patient confidentiality and delaying 鈥� or outright blocking 鈥� access to abortion care.

鈥淭hese Arkansas laws represent the worst motives of anti-abortion politicians: to shame, stigmatize, and humiliate abortion patients, and to make abortion care difficult if not impossible to access, 鈥� said Ruth Harlow, senior staff attorney in the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Reproductive Freedom Project. 鈥淲hile we鈥檙e disappointed with this order from the Eighth Circuit, we鈥檙e not backing down 鈥� this fight is nowhere near over. To the state of Arkansas: We鈥檒l see you back in court.鈥�

"These extreme bans and restrictions would push abortion care out of reach to many who need it and brazenly intrude on people's most personal medical decisions,鈥� said Holly Dickson, executive director of the 老澳门开奖结果 of Arkansas. 鈥淲hile we're disappointed the Eighth Circuit declined to rehear the case, this fight is not over. The people of Arkansas have a constitutional right to control their own lives and make their own medical decisions, and we'll never stop fighting to protect it."

鈥淭hese laws attempt to strip pregnant people in Arkansas of their constitutional right to safe, legal, and confidential abortion care,鈥� said Hillary Schneller, senior staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights. 鈥淣ot on our watch. Our top priority remains ensuring pregnant people do not face any disruption in their access to abortion care in Arkansas.鈥�

The lawsuit was filed by the 老澳门开奖结果, the 老澳门开奖结果 of Arkansas, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the law firm of O鈥橫elveny & Myers LLP on behalf of Frederick W. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H.