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From the WSJ.com today: Supreme Court Upholds Ban On Abortion Procedure

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a federal ban on late-term abortion procedures in a 5-4 opinion by swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy.


[kennedy]Majority: "It is a reasonable inference that a necessary effect of the regulation and the knowledge it conveys will be to encourage some women to carry the infant to full term, thus reducing the absolute number of late-term abortions. The medical profession, furthermore, may find different and less shocking methods to abort the fetus in the second trimester, thereby accommodating legislative demand." --Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority.




[ginsburg]Dissent: "Retreating from prior rulings that abortion restrictions cannot be imposed absent an exception safeguarding a woman's health, the court upholds an Act that surely would not survive under the close scrutiny that previous attended state-decreed limitations on a woman's reproductive services." --Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing a dissent