Congressional Digest

Excerpt

(Excerpted from Supreme Court Debates, December 2006)
On November 5, 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law.
It was the latest development in the heated abortion debate, and a direct challenge to the Supreme Court, which had struck down a similar Nebraska ban only three years before in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000). In that case, the Court invalidated the law because it was overbroad and because there was no exception allowing the procedure to preserve the health of the mother.
Congress, when it passed the ban, differentiated its law from the one in question in Sten…