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NEW: A federal judge in Missouri blocked the state's 8-week abortion ban, which was set to take effect tomorrow. The judge let a separate law banning abortions based on race/gender/disability take effect, but anticipated it would get struck down eventually buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Judge: "While federal courts should generally be very cautious before delaying the effect of State laws, the sense of caution may be mitigated when the legislation seems designed, as here, as a protest against Supreme Court decisions." buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
This is the latest in a string of lower court decisions blocking states from enforcing early-term abortion bans. But supporters of these bans have acknowledged they'll likely lose at this stage — the goal is to get before SCOTUS buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
State laws banning abortion based on a woman's reason for choosing the procedure, as opposed to the length of pregnancy, are trickling up through the courts. SCOTUS declined to hear such a case this year, saying not enough lower courts had weighed in yet buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
That brief order from SCOTUS in May — which meant Indiana couldn't enforce its reasons-based abortion ban — was accompanied by a concurrence from Justice Thomas, who had a lot to say about abortion, birth control, and eugenics, see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Missouri Gov. Michael Parson vows to press on after a federal judge blocked the state's eight-week abortion ban, which was set to take effect tomorrow buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… 
