“In today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, all nine justices declined to revisit important Supreme Court’s precedents protecting a woman’s health and upholding her right to choose.

But the Supreme Court punted to the lower court the ultimate decision on whether the New Hampshire statute should be overturned. New Hampshire’s law is especially callous because it provides no exception for women whose health would be endangered. We continue to believe that the New Hampshire law is inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s precedents and should be overturned.

It is noteworthy that in this decision Justice O’Connor writes that the Court is not revisiting precedents on reproductive choice “today”. The opinion leaves open the very real possibility that these important precedents could be revisited in the next case to come before the Court.

The Ayotte decision underscores just how much is at stake with the nomination of Judge Alito to the Supreme Court. Americans will have vast reason to worry if the Senate confirms Judge Alito, whose record of hostility to women’s reproductive rights is well documented and who has repeatedly declined to say that Roe v. Wade is settled law. That must not happen.”