Sidebar --WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court just tossed anti-abortion forces a major victory.
For the first time since establishing a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.
The 5-4 court decision said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's abortion rights, despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman's health.
Doctors who violate the law face up to two years in federal prison.
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COURT'S ADJOURNED!