National Abortion Federation v. Ashcroft

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the government \refuted Plaintiffs' proffered bases for the opinion that D & X has safety advantages over other second-trimester abortion procedures\
• finding that the government “refuted Plaintiffs’ proffered bases for the opinion that D & X-has safety advantages over other second-trimester abortion procedures”
• explaining that the government’s arguments “all fail to meaningfully distinguish the evidentiary circumstances present here from those that Stenberg held required a health exception to a ban on partial-birth abortion”
• District Court \heard more evidence during its trial than Congress heard over the span of eight years.\
• District Court “heard more evidence during its trial than Congress heard over the span of eight years.”
• “Most of [the plaintiffs’] experts acknowledged that they do not describe to their patients what [the D&E and intact D&E] procedures entail in clear and precise terms”

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