Supreme Court refuses to hear Alabama's defense of abortion ban struck down last year

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ducked another abortion case Friday, refusing to let Alabama defend its ban on a second-term method of abortion that was struck down last year.

The justices, who already have turned down opportunities to hear abortion cases from Louisiana and Indiana, denied the state's petition to have its ban on dilation & evacuation abortions heard next term.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit clearly sympathized with the state last year but ruled that the Supreme Court's precedents on abortion required that the ban be struck down.

"The method involves tearing apart and extracting piece-by-piece from the uterus what was until then a living unborn child," Chief Judge Ed Carnes wrote. "This is usually done during the 15-to-18 week stage of development, at which time the unborn child’s heart is already beating."

However, Carnes wrote, "In our judicial system, there is only one Supreme Court, and we are not it."

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