| Every year nearly one million American women deliver babies without receiving adequate medical attention. |
| Advancing women's health by creating an environment in which the public and elected officials confidently support women's health policy. |
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|  | Supreme Court Ruling: Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood |
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| Wednesday, April 18th: The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the federal abortion ban in the cases Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood and Gonzales v. Carhart. The ban, passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in 2003, criminalizes abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy that doctors say are safe and the best to protect women's health.
When President Bush signed the federal abortion ban in 2003, PPFA, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (PPGG), the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Abortion Federation and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged it in federal district courts around the country. Leading ob/gyns at major medical institutions testified against the ban because it would prevent them from providing the care that is best to protect their patients' health. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Nurses Association and many other medical groups oppose the federal ban. Until now, every court that examined the ban struck it down because, among other things, it fails to protect women's health.
For more information, link to: Federal Abortion Ban Trials
ACOG Statement on Supreme Court Decision |
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| Women's Stories
Hear the stories of three women, whose medical care would be outlawed by such a ban. |
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| Medical & Health Organizations Oppose Bans on Safe Abortion Procedures
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which represents 90 percent of all board certified ob-gyns, opposes the federal abortion ban as "inappropriate, ill advised and dangerous."
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) opposes the ban, saying it "is gravely concerned with governmental attempts to legislate medical decision-making through measures that do not protect a woman's physical and mental health, including future fertility, or fail to consider other pertinent issues, such as fetal abnormalities."
The following organizations oppose the Federal abortion ban.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Nurses Association
American Medical Women's Association
American Public Health Association
Association of Schools of Public Health
American College of Nurse Practitioners
Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Reproductive Health
American Medical Student Association
California Medical Association
Rhode Island Medical Society
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
National Asian Women's Health Organization
National Black Women's Health Project
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Women's Health Network
Association of Women Psychiatrists |
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| Freedom of Choice Act
S.1173 & H.R.1964 would guarantee reproductive freedom for future generations of American women. |
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