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		</div><p>A US federal judge has blocked three new abortion restrictions from taking effect in Arkansas, including a measure that opponents say would likely force the state&#8217;s only surgical abortion clinic to close.</p>
<p>US district judge Kristine Baker granted a 14-day temporary restraining order shortly before midnight on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The 159-page order blocks the state from enforcing the new laws, including a measure prohibiting the procedure 18 weeks into a woman&#8217;s pregnancy.</p>
<p>It also included a requirement that doctors performing abortions be board-certified or board-eligible in obstetrics and gynaecology.</p>
<p>An official with a Little Rock clinic that performs surgical abortions said it has one physician who meets that requirement, but he only works there a few days every other month.</p>
<p>Judge Baker also blocked a law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion if it is being sought because the foetus was diagnosed with Down&#8217;s Syndrome.</p>
<p>The laws are being challenged by Little Rock Family Planning Services, the state&#8217;s only surgical abortion clinic, and Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>Planned Parenthood only offers medication-induced abortions at its Arkansas facilities. The group stopped providing medication-induced abortions at its Fayetteville unit earlier this month while it looks for a new location, but is still providing the procedure at its Little Rock centre.</p>
<p>The challenge was filed on behalf of the plaintiffs by ACLU of Arkansas.</p>
<p>Its spokeswoman, Holly Dickson, said ACLU attorneys are poring over the order and will release a statement later on Wednesday.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: A federal court has temporarily blocked a set of abortion bans and restrictions that would have decimated access to abortion in Arkansas. We&#39;ll keep fighting to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StoptheBans?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StoptheBans</a> and strike down these laws for good. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/arnews?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#arnews</a> <a href="https://t.co/BZkv31kJCe">pic.twitter.com/BZkv31kJCe</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ACLU of Arkansas (@ArkansasACLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArkansasACLU/status/1153981728102465541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>For now, &#8220;we are so relieved that these bans and restrictions have been temporarily blocked from taking effect. And we are determined to see them blocked for good,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Under current Arkansas law, a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state can perform abortions.</p>
<p>The additional qualification for abortion doctors is similar to a Mississippi law which a federal judge upheld last year.</p>
<p>Opponents say the requirement eliminates a large number of physicians who have had training in the procedure. The state has argued the additional qualification would protect patients.</p>
<p>Arkansas is one of two states with an 18-week ban. Utah enacted a similar restriction this year, but has agreed not to enforce the ban as it is being challenged in federal court.</p>
<p>Several states have laws banning abortion for genetic anomalies including Down&#8217;s Syndrome, but North Dakota&#8217;s is the only that is in effect. The others are also tied up in legal challenges.</p>
<p>Arkansas faces the prospect of losing its only surgical provider while neighbouring Missouri&#8217;s only abortion clinic is fighting to continue providing the service.</p>
<p>If that facility closes, Missouri would be the first state without an abortion clinic since the year after the landmark 1973 Roe v Wade US supreme court decision that legalised the procedure nationwide.</p>
<p>The laws are among several new restrictions approved by the majority-Republican legislature in Arkansas this year.</p>
<p>Another law not challenged which is taking effect on Wednesday increases the waiting period before a woman can get an abortion from 48 hours to 72 hours.</p>
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