Victory at Last! Supreme Court Upholds Partial-Birth Abortion Ban!

And Bush's nominees made the difference.

by Rod D. Martin
April 18, 2007

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the ban on Partial-Birth Abortion.

George W. Bush's Supreme Court appointments -- Roberts and Alito -- made the difference, along with Kennedy, Thomas and Scalia. Alito, who replaced Sandra Day O'Connor, in so doing also replaced the Court's swing vote for what even the pro-abortion AMA has called "a barbaric procedure" and "never medically necessary".

For those who've decided the Presidency doesn't matter, or that a Republican Congress (which we no longer have) can better restrain spending with a Democrat President, the message is perfectly clear: a Hillary or an Obama would have appointed another Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Court, turning this 5-4 victory for life into a 6-3 defeat. Right now, Roe v. Wade itself is on the ropes. One more Republican Presidency could finish it; one more Democrat could keep it on the books for a generation.

Thank you to all of you who worked on this fight. Thousands of NFRA mem…