Thankfully, the court understood the immediacy of this situation and temporarily stopped this law from taking effect.

This unconstitutional law denies women, in consultation with their doctors and families, the right to make decisions about their own health,

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, ... The FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

The abortion ban is a brazen affront to women's health, the right to medical privacy and the U.S. Constitution and was rightfully struck down,

[In the wake of his comments last month that he would not apply an abortion-rights] litmus test ... understands viscerally reproductive rights as being related to women's human rights. ... But he's got to come up with some better language to talk about it.

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.