While these laws helped women in accessing abortion services, other laws were created to put limitations on abortion. Partial-birth abortions, or late-term abortions, were banned by the United States Senate in 1997, but President Bill Clinton vetoed the ban. Instead, he supported a bill that banned late-term abortions except in cases where the mother faced death or serious risk to her health. In 1999, twenty-eight states decided to take matters into their own hands and passed their own laws banning partial-birth abortions, but the state courts ruled that many of the bans were unconstitutional. For instance, the Stenberg v. Carhart case in 2000 overturned the ruling in Nebraska that banned late-term abortions. Finally, the U.S. Congress passed