Judge overturns N.J. abortion law TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A federal judge overturned a New Jersey law Tuesday banning a controversial late-term abortion procedure. U.S. District Judge Anne Thompson declared the law unconstitutional because its wording was too vague and it placed "an undue burden on a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion." Thompson said the law threatened both patients and providers with "irreparable injury" because women might be denied access to "the most conventional and safest abortion procedures" and because providers might be subject to "license revocation and heavy fines for performing constitutionally permissible abortions." Thompson's ruling resulted from a four-day civil trial, which ended in early October. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2557525269-594>
