Federal judge rules against partial-birth abortion ban

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AP, posted to KBC 6/3/04

A federal judge Tuesday declared unconstitutional the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, saying the measure infringes on a woman's right to choose.

US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton's ruling came in one of three lawsuits challenging the legislation President Bush signed last year.

The ruling applies to Planned parent hood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half the nation's abortions.

"The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion, " Hamilton wrote.

Federal judges in New York and Nebraska also heard challenges to the law earlier this year but have yet to rule.

Bush signed the bill in November, saying "a terrible form of violence has been directed against children who are inches from birth while the law looked the other way."