[BigSkyFreeper]

Not to split hairs ('cause what you posted was good stuff), but wasn't the ban on PBA struck down by some whacknut judge?

No, Bush signed into law to make it illegal nationwide, the USSC struck down a law banning PBA in Nebraska in 2000 (Stenberg v. Carhart), and Bush signed the nationwide bill in 2003.

[Prime Choice]

Not to split hairs ('cause what you posted was good stuff), but wasn't the ban on PBA struck down by some whacknut judge?

No, Bush signed into law to make it illegal nationwide, the USSC struck down a law banning PBA in Nebraska in 2000 (Stenberg v. Carhart), and Bush signed the nationwide bill in 2003.

Then what do you make of the ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf who, in September 2004, was the third Federal judge to rule that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was unconstitutional?

In short, though the abortion ban was signed last year by President Bush, it has not been enforced because three federal judges (in Lincoln, New York and San Francisco), agreed to hear constitutional challenges in simultaneous non-jury trials. This means that PBA is still technically legal.