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Ginsburg, the court's only woman, called Wednesday's decision "alarming."

It "cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court," she said.

She said this dispute was about how, not whether, abortions would be performed during the second trimester. Despite Kennedy's talk of "promoting fetal life," the ban on the procedure "targets only a method of abortion," she said. "The woman may abort the fetus, so long as her doctor uses another method, one her doctor judges less safe for her."

She also called the decision demeaning to women. It "pretends" to protect them "by denying them any choice in the matter," she said.

Bad decision, bad for women, bad for doctors. The fact that the health of the mother (only her life) is no longer a defensible reason for choosing a medical procedure is chilling. A doctor who decides her life is in danger may use the procedure, but now faces after-the-fact legal difficulties in defending the decision.