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Taxpayers Could Pay the Bill for Abortion Ban Fight, Even if State Gets Pro-Bono Legal Team

SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- Without an agreement to cover the state's legal fees, even Representative Carl Wimmer admits an abortion ban he'll sponsor next session is doomed to fail. "Well let's put it this way, I don't think we can get the bill passed in a time where we are seeing budget cuts," he says. "I don't' think we can get the bill passed unless we have a provision in there that says it will be funded from an outside source." However, Wimmer says a contract won't be necessary to protect taxpayers from footing the bill to fight challenges to the law. Wimmer also says a Washington DC organization has agreed to fight the case pro-bono. However, Walter Weber with DC-based-American Center for Law and Justice says consulting is a more typical arrangement. And he says even consulting is usually formalized in a contract.
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Posted by Editor at October 6, 2008 06:13 AM