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Opinion of the Court
Filed
April 18, 2007
Case
Gonzales v. Carhart
Case status
Decided

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*132Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases require us to consider the validity of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Act), 18 U. S. C. § 1531 (2000 ed., Supp. IV), a federal statute regulating abortion procedures. In recitations preceding its operative provisions the Act refers to the Court’s opinion in Stenberg…

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TypeAuthorFiled
Opinion Anthony McLeod Kennedy April 18, 2007
Concurrence Not attributed April 18, 2007
Dissent Not attributed April 18, 2007