NEW YORK – A federal court in Colorado has sided with a Catholic healthcare clinic in its challenge to a recent state law that forbids doctors and nurses from administering a natural hormone to reverse the effects of the first step of a medically induced abortion, which the state had implemented in part because of safety concerns.
In a ruling late Oct. 21, U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico ruled in part that regardless of the interests the state may have with the law, “Those interests cannot outweigh the plaintiffs' interest in protecting their First Amendment rights.”
