US Supreme Court rolls back access to abortion

For the first time in more than a generation, the US Supreme Court backtracked on abortion rights. In this 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court upheld the law restricting access to rare, but controversial late-term abortions. President Bush was obviously thrilled to here that the bill was passed through the Supreme Court saying, "The partial-birth abortion ban, which an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress passed and I signed into law, represents a commitment to building a culture of life in America". The late-term abortion is done only when the fetus is posing some kind of health problem to the mother. In 2003, Congress declared this not to be Constitutional, and this decision just reaffirmed the previous one. The procedure has the baby pulled feet first through a C-section, and puncturing the skull of the fetus in order to let it get through. Some anti-abortionist saw this as the first step to possibly overturning the decision made in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade. In that court case, the Supreme court gave the mother the right to decide if she wanted to have an abortion or not.