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LeRoy Carhart
Taken From: Arsonoists allegedly targeted Carhart's Farm after adopting abortion into hid surgical practice. -
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
[Taken From: ](http:///www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1991/1991_91_744)Uheld the constitutional right to have an abortion as decided in Roe v. Wade. -
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Passed
Taken From: Law passed by George W. Bush prohibiting late-term abortion. Under this law, physicians or other individual can not knowingly performing a partial-birth abortion, except when necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury. -
District Court
Taken From: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was found unconstitutional in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Southern District of New York, and the District of Nebraska. -
Aouttorney General
Taken From: Alberto Gonzales is appointed Attourney General by president George W. Bush. -
Appeal
Taken From: The federal government (Gonzales) appealed the district court rulings, first bringing Carhart v. Gonzales before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. -
Panel Decision
Taken From: The panel unanimously affirmed the ruling of the Nebraska court. They held that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was unconstitutional because it lacked an exception for the health of the woman. -
Supreme Court
Taken From: Attorney General Gonzales petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eighth Circuit decision. -
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Case Begins
Taken From: Oral arguments ibegan. Solicitor General Paul Clement, presented arguments for the United States, and Priscilla Smith presented arguments for Dr. Carhart. -
Decision
Taken From: The Court ruled by a 5-4 vote that Congress's ban on partial-birth abortion was not unconstitutionally vague and did not impose an undue burden on the right to an abortion. -
Dissent
Taken From: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented, jined by justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and Stephen Breyer, stating that the ruling was an "alarming" one that ignored Supreme Court abortion precedent. (Planned parenthood v. Casey)
