[NinoFan]

To further clarify, Kennedy makes a distinction between prohibiting and stopping by discouragement. He CLEARLY thinks the law may very well discourage some women from getting abortions, thus decreasing the amount of abortions. In other words, it will save some lives. From the opinion: "It is a reasonable inference that a necessary effect of the regulation and the knowledge it conveys will be to encourage some women to carry the infant to full term, thus reducing the absolute number of late-term abortions. The medical profession, furthermore, may find different and less shocking methods to abort the fetus in the second trimester, thereby accommodating legislative demand. The State’s interest in respect for life is advanced by the dialogue that better informs the political and legal systems, the medical profession, expectant mothers, and society as a whole of the consequences that follow from a decision to elect a late-term abortion."

[Sandy]

In other words, it will save some lives.

You have no way of knowing that any more than Kennedy does. Besides, I'm not an ends justifies the means kind of person. So even if this law actually stops an abortion or two, I still wouldn't support it. Either we stick to the Constitution and return abortion to the states or we're no better than liberals. We can't have it both ways.