Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld by the Supremes!

My memory may be incorrect, but I seem to recall when Congress passed the Partial Birth Abortion ban it was generally seen as a symbolic move which would not survive court challenges. Well, apparently the Supreme Court felt differently. They ust uphold the ban 5-to-4.

For the first time since the court established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.
The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman's health, Kennedy said. "The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice," he wrote in the majority opinion.

I am of two minds about this. On the one hand, I am of the opinion that the decision of legality of abortion should be a STATE issue, not a Federal one. On the other hand, I am glad for any glimmering of hope that the unborn can be protected.