The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has joined other pro-life organizations in asking a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s invalidation of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
ERLC and six other organizations signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief filed Dec. 8 by the Christian Legal Society (CLS) with the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis seeking affirmation of the 2003 law.
In September, Federal Judge Richard Kopf of Lincoln, Neb., struck down the measure, which bans an abortion procedure performed on an almost totally delivered unborn child.
Kopf was the last of three federal judges to invalidate the ban. Judges in San Francisco and New York City ruled during the summer the law was unconstitutional. The Department of Justice has appealed the rulings. The cases appeared destined to converge at the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I hope and pray that the Eighth Circuit will overturn this egregious decision,” Land said. “If not, we will continue the fight to take our government back from the imperial judiciary.”
Others signing onto the brief were the Alliance Defense Fund, Christian Medical Association, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family and National Association of Evangelicals. (TAB)
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