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Taken From: Arsonoists allegedly targeted Carhart's Farm after adopting abortion into hid surgical practice.
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[Taken From: ](http:///www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1991/1991_91_744)Uheld the constitutional right to have an abortion as decided in Roe v. Wade.
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Taken From: Law passed by George W. Bush prohibiting late-term abortion. Under this law, physicians or other individual can not knowingly performing a partial-birth abortion, except when necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, illness, or injury.
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Taken From: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was found unconstitutional in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of California, the Southern District of New York, and the District of Nebraska.
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Taken From: Alberto Gonzales is appointed Attourney General by president George W. Bush.
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Taken From: The federal government (Gonzales) appealed the district court rulings, first bringing Carhart v. Gonzales before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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Taken From: The panel unanimously affirmed the ruling of the Nebraska court. They held that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was unconstitutional because it lacked an exception for the health of the woman.
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Taken From: Attorney General Gonzales petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Eighth Circuit decision.
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Taken From: The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Carhart case.
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Taken From: Oral arguments ibegan. Solicitor General Paul Clement, presented arguments for the United States, and Priscilla Smith presented arguments for Dr. Carhart.
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Taken From: The Court ruled by a 5-4 vote that Congress's ban on partial-birth abortion was not unconstitutionally vague and did not impose an undue burden on the right to an abortion.
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Taken From: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented, jined by justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and Stephen Breyer, stating that the ruling was an "alarming" one that ignored Supreme Court abortion precedent. (Planned parenthood v. Casey)
