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MARGARET S. v. EDWARDS

Nos. 81-3750, 84-3520.

794 F.2d 994 (1986)

MARGARET S., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor of the State of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellees Cross-Appellants. MARGARET S., on her own behalf and on behalf of all other similarly situated, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor of the State of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia N. Bowers, Asst. Atty. Gen., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants cross-appellees.

Suzanne M. Lynn, American Civil Liberties Union, Nan D. Hunter, Wendy E. Wells, Janet Benshoff, Diana Troub, New York City, Jane Johnson, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees cross-appellant.

Before WILLIAMS, HIGGINBOTHAM, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to decide the constitutionality of two statutory provisions through which Louisiana has sought to regulate the practice of abortion. One provision requires that the attending physician inform his patient, within twenty-four hours after she undergoes an abortion, that she may exercise one of several options for the disposition of the fetal remains. The other forbids "experimentation" on the fetal remains of an abortion...

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