The National Right to Life Committee issued a press release concerning the Supreme Court rulnig which upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act 0f 2003. It includes an interesting discussion of the legal definition of "live birth"and the legal definition of "partial-birth". For the NRLC press release click:
National Right to Life applauds U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act: A quote from the press release follows: "Writing for a 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, 'The Act proscribes a method of abortion in which a fetus is killed just inches before completion of the birth process. . . Congress determined that the abortion methods it proscribed had a 'disturbing similarity to the killing of a newborn infant.' . . .' The majority ruled that a general ban on the method is permissible and does not violate the general 'abortion right' enunciated in past decisions such as Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992)."
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