Blunt Lauds Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

From PR/US Newswire:

House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) released the following statement this morning after the Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion, a bill passed by Congress and signed by the president in 2003:

"Today's ruling by the Supreme Court affirms what many of us already knew about partial birth abortion: it's abhorrent, it's dangerous, and it has no place in the realm of contemporary medicine or, frankly, civil society.

"The decision is also an affirmation of the overwhelming and bi-partisan message Congress sent to the courts in 2003, when nearly two-thirds of the House and Senate voted to end this grisly procedure. Moving forward, it's my hope that inferior courts will take notice of this ruling, and that Congress, the executive branch, and the entire judicial system will build on the foundation laid today to do more to protect and preserve the sanctity of human life."

Republicans and Democrats in Congress voted in 2003 to make the practice of partial-birth abortion illegal, rightly recognizing it as inhumane and medically unnecessary. But the law was later struck down by federal judges in California, Nebraska and New York, clearing the way for the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Wednesday.