The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals just affirmed a lower court’s ruling that an Alabama law banning dismemberment abortions is unconstitutional. The legal rationale, laid down in higher-court precedent, was that the ban creates “additional risks” for women seeking to abort.

However, although the three-judge panel ruled unanimously against the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Act, two of the three judges made it clear just how unhappy they were to be following Supreme Court precedent.