Resource: Stenberg v. Carhart

The Center for Reproductive Rights brought this case on behalf of Nebraska abortion provider Dr. Leroy Carhart to challenge Nebraska’s method ban on abortion. That law was part of a wave of similar state bans passed in the early 1990s at the urging of abortion rights opponents, who invented the inflammatory term “partial-birth abortion” as part of their advocacy strategy. The term has no medical meaning, and the bans were written in broad terms that encompassed almost all methods of abortion.