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News Round-Up: Carhart & Planned Parenthood

UPDATED 7:55 p.m.

Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has her take on today’s decision here.

The Chicago Tribune’s Judy Peres reports here on the Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the ban on late-term abortions; Warren Richey has this article in the Christian Science Monitor; Melissa Drosjack of FOX News reports here; and Tony Mauro has this article in the Legal Times.

In the Washington Post, William Branigin and Robert Barnes have this article on the Supreme Court’s ruling; David Stout reports here in the New York Times; the USA Today’s Joan Biskupic has this article and this audio analysis.

In the Wall Street Journal, Mark H. Anderson has this article on the High Court ruling; David G. Savage reports here for the LA Times; the BBC has this story. Reuters has this piece recounting the Court’s other major abortion rulings.

Libby Quaid has this article describing presidential candidates’ reactions to the Court’s ruling for the Associated Press; the AP collects additional reactions here.

AP writer Mark Sherman reports here on the Court’s 5-4 decision upholding a federal ban on “partial birth” abortion; James Vicini of Reuters has this article; Greg Stohr reports here for Bloomberg; and CNN has this report.