I certainly reserve quite a bit of scorn to those who passed the bill in the first place, don't get me wrong. The SCOTUS however did break with precedent here. That the bill has no exception for the health of the mother is particularly lamentable, a point that lower courts have made. But I haven't read the opinions, and legal matters aren't my expertise at all.
I mean, read this portion of the act itself. Is this what is passing for legislation these days? Italics mine.
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(1) A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion -- an abortion in which a physician delivers an unborn child's body until only the head remains inside the womb, punctures the back of the child's skull with a Sharp instrument, and sucks the child's brains out before completing deliveryof the dead infant -- is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited
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It's a total joke. Not to mention, a more common procedure that involves separating the fetus into pieces while in the uterus, isn't banned by this act.
More about the medicine/science thing later. FWIW, the AMA did endorse the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. But the AMA represents less than 1/2 of doctors, and many other medical organizations oppose the act. I personally think the AMA is a fucking joke too.