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Court refuses to revive MI’s partial-birth abortion ban.

The Supreme Court today declined to review a ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which struck down Michigan’s ban on so-called “partial-birth” abortions. The Court’s move effectively outlaws the state’s ban on the procedure, although the Court upheld a similar federal law banning the technique last April.

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