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Partial-Birth Abortion Ban: Reactions:

• Abortion ruling emboldens opponents | The Supreme Court's endorsement of the first federal curbs on an abortion procedure in a generation suggests that even with Democrats in control of Congress, efforts to preserve abortion rights may be losing ground (Associated Press)
  
  
• Abortion case limits health exception | Women who want a controversial abortion procedure for health reasons have few options beyond going to court and trying to prove that a Supreme Court decision banning the practice should not apply (Associated Press)
  
  
• Reactions to court's abortion decision | Mostly from politicians (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religious on both sides of abortion debate gear up, cite Supreme Court ruling | Hundreds of abortion opponents on Friday heard speakers caution that they should rely on God, not on the courts or politicians, to take action to end abortions (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Religious group attacks religion in U.S. healthcare | Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice said last week's Supreme Court decision outlawing a certain type of abortion demonstrated that religious belief was interfering with personal rights and the U.S. health care system in general (Reuters)
  
  

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Supreme Court dynamics:

• High court upholds ban on partial-birth abortions | It all came down to Samuel Alito Jr., not Kennedy (Legal Times)
  
  
• Analysis: Kennedy's pivotal vote | Kennedy is not expected to support a rollback of all abortion rights, but his new analysis of how courts should handle future cases worried his liberal colleagues and abortion rights supporters. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Kennedy may be key to abortion limits | While Kennedy adopted some language favored by abortion opponents — "life of the unborn," "abortion doctor," "respect for life" — he also carefully distinguished the controversial procedure that was the focus of the Supreme Court case from a more common abortion method used after 12 weeks of pregnancy (Associated Press)
  
  
• Roberts Court moves right, but with a measured step | The five justices in the majority came up with an opinion that delighted abortion opponents and outraged abortion rights activists -- and yet, in the view of the court, did not overturn a single precedent or seemingly contradictory ruling (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
  
  

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