Supreme Court to Hear Case on Abortion Law BRIEFLY: WASHINGTON
Posted on: Thursday, 23 February 2006, 12:00 CST
The Supreme Court, at full strength with Justice Samuel Alito Jr. on the bench for the first time, opened the next chapter in the dispute over abortion by agreeing to decide whether the first federal ban on a method of abortion is constitutional.
On Tuesday, the court accepted, for argument next fall, the Bush administration's appeal of a decision invalidating the Partial- Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The law makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion during which a portion of the fetus, either the "entire fetal head" or "any part of the fetal trunk past the navel," is outside the woman's uterus at the time the fetus is killed.
The law makes an exception for instances in which the banned technique is necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, but not for preservation of her health, as the Supreme Court found necessary six years ago when it overturned a similar law from Nebraska.
Source: International Herald Tribune
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