Guam Asks Ninth Circuit to Revive 1990 Near-Total Abortion Ban

A 1990 near-total ban on abortion should be allowed to take effect on Guam following the US Supreme Court’s decision that there’s no federal right to end a pregnancy before viability, Guam’s top lawyer said.

There’s no longer any basis in law or fact to maintain an order that blocked the territory from enforcing a law that banned abortion except when necessary to treat an ectopic pregnancy or when the mother’s life or health was at risk, Attorney General Douglas Moylan (R) said Monday in a brief filed with US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The US District ...