To solve this problem, Congress needs to forbid state restrictions on managed care.
Existing state restrictions, passed by the Legislature in 1975, are comparatively narrow.
The judge said the Federal law superseded state restrictions on the use of public money for abortions.
For its part, Florida has no state restriction on the sale or possession of such arms and is unlikely to pass one.
Nursing homes, however, have found a way to profit from the state restrictions.
But the import of the ruling is clearly to subject state restrictions on abortion to less scrutiny.
More recently, the standard has been used in cases involving state restrictions on a woman's access to abortion.
The dam has leaked since its construction, leading it to operate under state restrictions.
The state restrictions have come under court challenge because of a jurisdictional dispute.
Such a statement would have made it difficult for any state restrictions on abortion to pass constitutional muster.
