Did you know partial-birth abortion ban was upheld by the SCOTUS?

In 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. On June 1, 2004, District Court judge Phyllis Hamilton declared the act unconstitutional, saying it infringed on a woman's right to choose. At present, the ruling applies only to the nation's 900 or so Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform about half of the 1.3 million abortions done each year in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two cases challenging the lower court rulings on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban of 2003: Gonzales v. Carhart and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Both cases were argued in autumn 2006 and a decision by the Court was delivered on April 18, 2007. The 5-4 ruling consolidated both cases under Gonzales v. Carhart and upheld the 2003 law—the first ever to ban a specific abortion procedure. Roe v. Wade was not overturned by this decision.