Senator Rick Santorum, the Pennsylvania Republican who was the chief sponsor of the ban, countered with a bitter denunciation of the court for the Roe decision, saying that it had coarsened the nation's culture and stained its history as much as slavery.
Echoing criticism from activists over counter-terrorism measures, Ban says: "Counter-terrorism efforts, asymmetric warfare, and the emergence of new threats and enemies cannot legitimise the loosening, or the outright dismissal, of rules that aim to spare civilians and limit harm to what is necessary to weaken the enemy".
The president of the Prison Governors Association, Paul Tidball, has said that the ban runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law-abiding life on release.
But Turkey's Higher Education Council, responsible for enforcing the ban, has countered by sending its own photographers to campuses and requiring women to have their pictures taken by them.
The bans' defenders counter that voters get to decide on how their states handle marriage and that gays are too influential to merit such special protection: "political figures are falling over themselves," Chief Justice John Roberts said two years ago, "to endorse your side of the case".
The victim's father has said that the ban is counter-productive, and has called for everyone to watch the film.
Casinos can get good pictures of their customers, typically when they check in, and then can track down banned card-counters.
"It's a pretty complicated transaction that needs three sets of government approvals for an exception to sanctions covering banking, insurance, shipping and dealing with a banned Iranian counter-party, NIOC," said Mark Dubowitz, the head of the U.S. Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is a leading advocate of harsher sanctions on Iran.
Those who object to a ban tend to counter that it will only push the "oldest profession" further underground, making those involved more vulnerable.
The ban aims to counter a surge in the teenage use of e-cigarettes.
