The Supreme Court rejecting oklahomas appeal to reinstate its strict law banning medical abortions, specifically those performed with the drug ru486 known as the abortion pill. The court initially agreed to take up the appeal this spring but later asked Oklahomas Court to clarify what the law covered. The court responded by saying the measure effectively bans all medical abortions. That apparently wasnt enough for justices and now oklahomas Supreme Court decision avoiding the law will remain intact. Pete Williams Joins us live. This is one of a number of abortion related cases and high court is expected to consider soon. Right, but consider the importance of what the court did here. As a technical legal matter, what the Supreme Court did here today, no president ial value and expressed no view on the laws and said were not going to hear this case after all. Consider the fact in the spring when it looked like enthuse law in oklahoma was to restrict not to ban the use of ru486 and one ot
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gubernatorial race where terry mccalliffe is in the driver s seat. may be the closest contest will be the state attorney general s race between mark herring and mark o ben shane, the polling we ve seen on attorney generals race is a little tougher. the polling we ve seen it is very close. democrats do have the chance for a sweep. and it s significant because it s a state in virginia which has been a swing state. it s perfectly reflected the spread in the 2008, 2012 presidential races and that s what we ll watch tomorrow night. the poll shows mcauliffe is up 6% and also interesting to know note, mark, how much the clintons have been involved in this race and for obvious reasons as well as the president s limited involvement in the race. the president had a limited involvement and his people would point out because of the government shutdown, kept him from having any campaign activity in the first half of the month of the october.
0 other pill for medicinal purposes the supreme court was willing to look at that. oklahoma said please take our appeal, the supreme court here says we can t enforce this law, the supreme court says yes. when the supreme court found out that the law essentially bans the use of these pills, the supreme court said we re not going to review a decision striking that down. that i would think is not a good sign to the advocates of these laws in other states. there are similar not identical but similar laws in texas and arizona, in ohio, and in north dakota. so the lower courts are all over the map on this. but i would think this is not a good sign for those laws, but that s going to have to work its way for a while. yes, there are other cases heading here just today there s an appeal to the u.s. supreme court, a request for it to stop the owe the effect of a appeals court ruling allowing the texas abortion law to go into effect. the one that says doctors that perform abortions have to have