5-4 decision. I guess Kennedy (majority author of the decision) let us down. I will get the link to the decision as soon as it available. (The decision is available here - pdf file: http://www.scotusblog.com/... I am guessing that our new justices - Alito and Roberts joined the opinion. Check out http://www.scotusblog.com for more and breaking info.
From SCOTUS Blog:
The Court said that it was upholding the law as written -- that is, its facial language. It said that the lawsuits challenging the law should not have been allowed in court "in the first instance." The proper way to make a challenge, if an abortion ban is claimed to harm a woman's right to abortion, is through as as-applied claim, Kennedy wrote. His opinion said that courts could consider such claims "in discrete and well-defined instances" where "a condition has or is likely to occur in which the procedure prohibited by the Act must be used."
Ginsburg, in a lengthy statement, said "the Court's opinion tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. For the first time since Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception protecting a woman's health."
I wish O'Connor was still on the Court.