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MARGARET S. v. EDWARDS

Civ. A. No. 78-2765.

488 F.Supp. 181 (1980)

MARGARET S., on her own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated; Dr. Roy Wood, Dr. Calvin Jackson, and Dr. Duncan McKellar, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated; and Clinical Leasing Services, Inc., d/b/a Delta Women's Clinic, Orleans Women's Clinic and Causeway Medical Suite v. Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor of the State of Louisiana; William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Louisiana; William Cherry, M.D., Secretary of the State of Louisiana Health and Human Resources Administration; all of the above in their individual and official capacities.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

March 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Strickler, New Orleans, La., Judith Levin, Janet Benshoof, New York City, Wayne G. Hawley, Cleveland, Ohio, John Wilson Reed, New Orleans, La., Stephen Landsman, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiffs.

Michael R. Connelly, Baton Rouge, La., Louis M. Jones, Ronald Davis, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

Sidney M. Bach, New Orleans, La., for intervenor Dr. Okpalobi.

Lane Carson, New Orleans, La., James Bopp, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind., Robert E. Winn, New Orleans, La., for intervenors Dr. Moorman, Carr, Gaudin & Richey, amici curiae.

Nadine Taub, Newark, N. J., for American Public Health, amicus curiae.

Leo Pfeffer, New York City, for American Humanist Ass'n, amicus curiae.

OPINION

ROBERT F. COLLINS, District Judge.

This case presents a constitutional challenge to a recently enacted Louisiana statute regulating abortion. La.Rev.Stat.Ann. §§ 40:1299.35.1 et seq. (West Supp.1979). In approaching the issues presented in this case, this Court thinks that the following quotation from the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973) is...

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