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A federal law banning partial-birth abortion was signed into law in 2003.  Entitled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (HR 760, S 3), it passed in the House with a vote of 281-142 and in the Senate with a vote of 64-34.  Federal courts have prevented it from ever taking effect, decisions are one review (March 2007) by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in ''Gonzales v. Carhart''.

A federal law banning partial-birth abortion was signed into law in 2003.  Entitled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (HR 760, S 3), it passed in the House with a vote of 281-142 and in the Senate with a vote of 64-34.  Federal courts have prevented it from ever taking effect, decisions are one review (March 2007) by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in ''Gonzales v. Carhart''.