Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld by a 5-4 majority

I am pleased that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that a woman's privacy right does not extend to killing a baby after it exits the birth canal. Cutting it up inside the mother is much better. I think the AP sums up everthing that needs to be said:

Ginsburg said the latest decision "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists." She was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens.

The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion. Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method - dismembering the fetus in the uterus - is available and, indeed, much more common.