Home Human Cloning Newsbreaks BDF in Seoul Bioethics At-A-Glance Missouri Cloning Scam Legislation Bioethics Blueprints Litigation Media & Education About BDF BDF Store Men and Abortion Eroding Roe: A Winning Strategy Get Involved! Sign Up For The BDFund Newsletter! Learn the Human Rights Answers! Click here to sign up for our FREE e-report. Partial Birth Abortion: A Crime Against Humanity U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban BDF Lawyers Advocate Against Infanticide and Endangering Women's Health MEDICAL: See the medical drawings of partial birth abortion. Learn about PBA health risks to women. LEGAL: A quick legal primer on partial birth abortion. See our medical brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, filed May 22, 2006, outlining the serious medical dangers to women's health of partial birth abortion. Listen to Dorinda speak outside the US Supreme Court width="140" height="40" autostart="false" loop="FALSE"> "The government may use its voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, majority opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart issued 4/18/2007. April 18, 2007. Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld the first federal restriction on a method of abortion since Roe v. Wade. The decision rejected the claims of Planned Parenthood and abortion providers who challenged the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. Nikolas T. Nikas, Bioethics Defense Fund president and general counsel stated, "Today's decision is a victory for human dignity, constitutional restraint, and common sense." He pointed out that the decision seems to signal the Supreme Court's rejection of unsupported and speculative facial challenges consistently brought by the abortion industry to strike down reasonable abortion regulations. Bioethics Defense Fund's legal team, who has been litigating partial birth cases for a decade, filed two friend of the court briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court outlining the significant medical risks that the partial-birth abortion method poses to the mother. Dorinda Bordlee, BDF senior counsel said, "The mask is now off on the abortion industry's ruse of promoting abortion in the name of so-called women's health." Explaining that abortion in general has significant health and psychological risks to the woman, Bordlee also noted that the American Medical Association supported the federal ban on partial birth abortion, explaining that the brutal procedure is "not medically indicated," and is "not good medicine." "Today's victory shows that with perseverance, prudential judgment and strategic thinking, abortion will continue to be recognized for what it is -- a crime against humanity," concluded Nikas. Bioethics Defense Fund will take an important role in informing the legislatures, courts and public of the human rights of women and their unborn children. To become a part of this historic battle to renew respect for human life, go to http://www.BDFund.org/contribute.asp. For Human Rights from Beginning to End, Nikolas T. Nikas President and General Counsel Dorinda C. Bordlee Vice President and Senior Counsel Media Inquiries: Monique Colon Toso Public Relations Coordinator Bioethics Defense Fund 504.454.8760 info@BDFund.org Copyright 2007 - Bioethics Defense Fund. Permission granted for unlimited use. Credit required.. For more information, contact us at info@bdfund.org or use our contact form.