The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a lower court’s injunction against Alabama’s law prohibiting some “dilation and extraction” abortions, but two of the judges made clear they did so only because U.S. Supreme Court precedent mandates the ruling.

The first sentence in Chief Judge Ed Carnes’ majority opinion published Wednesday is blunt: “Some Supreme Court justices have been of the view that there is constitutional law and then there is the aberration of constitutional law relating to abortion. If so, what we must apply here is the aberration.”