I'm trying to see if I understand this correctly. This "ban" is specific to a type of abortion procedure, and does not restrict abortions that take place after 12 weeks, if performed using the different procedure mentioned? Am I right on that?

BTW, over 1 million abortions in the US each year? That's very, very disturbing.


Supreme Court OKs Abortion Procedure Ban

Apr 18 01:46 PM US/Eastern
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

For the first time since the court established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.

The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman's health, Kennedy said. "The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice," he wrote in the majority opinion.

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It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how—not whether—to perform an abortion.

Abortion rights groups as well as the leading association of obstetricians and gynecologists have said the procedure sometimes is the safest for a woman. They also said that such a ruling could threaten most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, although Kennedy said alternate, more widely used procedures remain legal.


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More than 1 million abortions are performed in the United States each year, according to recent statistics. Nearly 90 percent of those occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and are not affected by Wednesday's ruling. The Guttmacher Institute says 2,200 dilation and extraction procedures—the medical term most often used by doctors—were performed in 2000, the latest figures available.

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The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.

Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method—dismembering the fetus in the uterus—is available and, indeed, much more common.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

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Sorry, I kinda posted the same thing. Mine's better though

"Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method—dismembering the fetus in the uterus—is available and, indeed, much more common."

oh, thank goodness!!!! So the Pro-choicers can feel good at least about that.

* in case the point was missed, I was being sarcastic.

So then I was right about the specifics?

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