Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act - UpdatedDescriptionFor the first time since a right to abortion was created by the Supreme Court in 1973, a federal law limits the performance of abortion. President George W. Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law (PL 108-105) on November 5, 2003.
On April 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was constitutional. |
