clipped from: plannedparenthood.org   
On Wednesday, the highest court in the country voted 5-4 to uphold the federal abortion ban passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2003. The ban criminalizes abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy that doctors say are often the safest and best to protect women's health.

Justice Ruth Ginsburg, one of four dissenting justices, made clear that at least the one remaining woman on the court sees the writing on the wall. She wrote in her dissent:

"For the first time since Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception protecting a woman's health."

The court told women that, with their health at risk during a pregnancy, deciding what to do is no longer up to them and their doctors.

Planned Parenthood and its allies are standing up for all American women -- standing up to protect women's health and safety; standing up to keep medical decisions out of politicians' hands; standing up to preserve a right that many of us took for granted for far too long.