RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER FOR WOMEN v. GILMORE

No. 98-1930.

144 F.3d 326 (1998)

RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER FOR WOMEN; William G. Fitzhugh, M.D.; Hillcrest Clinic; Herbert C. Jones, Jr., M.D.; Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC, Incorporated; Virginia League for Planned Parenthood; Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James GILMORE, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Virginia; David M. Hicks, in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Richmond; Donald S. Caldwell, in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Roanoke; Howard Gwynn, in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Newport News; Charles D. Griffith, Jr., in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the City of Norfolk; Robert F. Horan, Jr., in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Fairfax; James L. Camblos, III, in his official capacity as Commonwealth Attorney for the County of Albemarle, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

June 30, 1998.


ORDER

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted on March 12, 1998, and the Governor of the Commonwealth signed into law on April 13, 1998, Virginia's Partial Birth Abortion Act. This Act was modeled after the bill passed by the Congress of the United States on October 8, 1997, which was supported by the American Medical Association but subsequently vetoed by the President. The undisputed purpose

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