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Partial birth abortion (view source)
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[[File:Cranioclast.jpg|thumb|200px| Cranioclast: an instrument used to crush
the baby's skull so as to allow the extraction.]]
'''Partial Birth Abortion''' is a late-term [[Abortion|abortive procedure]] in which all of a fetus (except for the head) is removed from the womb through the [[cervix]] (the same pathway through which birth occurs; hence the name), and is then killed. The official medical term is "intact dilation and extraction" abortion.
The procedure accounts for 0.17% of all abortions in the U.S., but due to its grisly nature, has become an important battleground within the greater [[abortion controversy]]. <ref>http://www.abortioninfo.net/facts/pba.shtml</ref>
[[United States Congress|Congress]] passed laws to ban the procedure in 1996 and 1997, but the bill was [[veto|vetoed]] by [[Bill Clinton|President Clinton]]<ref>http://www.jeremiahproject.com/culture/partbirthabortion.html</ref> and Congress was just short of the votes necessary to override it. The United States Congress enacted the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act <ref>http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/abortion/2003s3.html</ref> in 2003 and [[George W. Bush|President Bush]] signed it into law.
The Supreme Court upheld the ban by a 5 to 4 decision in [[Gonzales v. Carhart]], on 18 April 2007.
From PriestsForLife.org <ref>http://www.priestsforlife.org/pba/supreme-court-pba-ban.pdf</ref> The ban prohibits:
<blockquote>"knowingly perform[ing] a partial-birth abortion...that is [not] necessary to save the life of the mother," 18 U.S.C. Section 1531(a). It defines "partial-birth abortion," Section 1531(b)(1), as a procedure in which the doctor: "(A) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the [mother's] body..., or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunck past the navel is outside the [mother's] body..., for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus"; and "(B) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the fetus."</blockquote>
==References==
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==See also==
*[[Abortion]]
[[Category:Abortion]]
==External Links==
* [http://www.abortioninstruments.com/new_index.html#instruments Abortion Instruments]