Here is a link (below) to a Washington Post story about the increasing number of laws that states have passed restricting abortion. The article focuses on Nebraska’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy to prevent fetal pain. The article notes that the US Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, in which the Court upheld the federal ban on partial birth abortion, has encouraged states to test the limits the Court has imposed on restricting abortion.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/27/AR2010122703379_pf.html
Richard M.