The provider behind the Supreme Court petition.

This article profiles Dr. LeRoy Carhart a physician aged 58 years who challenged Nebraskas 1998 partial-birth abortion statute. During his days as a medical student he has witnessed a lot of women brought in near death from the effects of illegal unsafe abortions. He started his abortion practice with the aim to make people healthy and help them achieve their life goals. However under the terms of the partial-birth abortion statute he found that he could no longer provide the same medical care he has offered for the past decade without putting him at risk of prosecution imprisonment for up to 20 years and losing his medical license. He recognized that the criminal statute actually applied to abortion procedures he performs for women in the first and second trimester of pregnancy. When he petitioned the criminal statute the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit determined that the broadly written Nebraska ban was unconstitutional because it would prohibit some of the safest and most common abortion procedures used during the second trimester of pregnancy. Unfortunately a month later a sharply divided Seventh Circuit determined that similar bans in Wisconsin and Illinois were constitutional. Hence the US Supreme Court was petitioned to review the Nebraska case to determine the laws constitutionality.