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2005 South Dakota abortion law back in court

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A federal judge will hear oral arguments next month in Sioux Falls over a lawsuit challenging a law that requires doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life.

The Legislature passed the measure in 2005 but Planned Parenthood appealed. It operates the state's only abortion clinic in Sioux Falls.

U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier temporarily prevented the law from taking effect. But the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled that order last July, so the state started enforcing the law.

Schreier must decide whether to grant motions for summary judgment and a request by Planned Parenthood to keep the state from imposing sanctions over the law's requirements.

The hearing is July 17 in Sioux Falls.

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