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Article: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.(Case overview)
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Six years after the Supreme Court overturned Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortions, a newly reconstituted High Court will hear arguments on a lower court ruling that blocked enforcement of the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The justices' February 21 decision came on the Court's first official day of business after Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., replaced Sandra Day O'Connor.
The justices will hear Gonzales v. Carhart in their next term, which begins in October.
When President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law, he said, "In passing this legislation, members of the House and Senate made a studied decision based upon ...