Good news today from the Supreme Court. The ban on partial birth abortions has been upheld by the Supreme Court which means that the law passed in 2003 is now the law of the land, constitutional, and that’s that.

The 5-4 ruling 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 opponents of the act “have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.

The decision pitted the court’s conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush’s two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.

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 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 government lawyers and others who favor the ban said there are alternate, more widely used procedures that remain legal.

I’ve yet to see any examples of how a partial birth abortion is safer for a woman. My contention has always been that if it were for the health of the mother, the actual process of birthing a child and then killing it still involves actually birthing the child, but what I believe is no longer relevant.

It’s the law of the land.

The baby murdering industry has lost.

It’s a great day.

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