A fight over the validity of state laws restricting abortion based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome has arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court, as Arkansas has asked the top court to review a decision striking its provision.
Arkansas’ petition for review was filed at about the same time that another federal appeals court decided that an Ohio law criminalizing abortions when providers know women are seeking them because of a Down syndrome diagnosis passed constitutional muster.
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit blocking enforcement of Arkansas’ substantially similar law stands in contrast ...
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