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	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (Public Law 108-105, HR 760, S 3) (1) (or "PBA Ban") is a United States law that bans partial-birth abortion made in or affecting interstate commerce.
		Two federal appeals courts on opposite sides of the country declared the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Tuesday, January 31, 2006, saying the measure lacks an exception for cases in which a woman's health is at stake.
		The PBA ban passed both chambers of Congress with sizeable bi-partisan majorities: 281-142 in the House of Representatives and 64-34 in the United States Senate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Partial-Birth_Abortion_Ban_Act (716 words)

	THE PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2003
		The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 [hereinafter "the 2003 Act"] was the third time in eight years that Congress attempted to ban the procedure referred to as "partial-birth abortion."[1] Similar bills passed Congress in 1996 and 1997 but were each vetoed by President Clinton.
		Act, stated, "[n]o partial birth abortion shall be performed in this state, unless such procedure is necessary to save the life of the mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself."
		The 2003 Act, however, goes beyond such regulations and takes the dangerous step of explicitly forbidding physicians from performing a specific medical procedure while other procedures that produce the same result are allowed, regardless of whether the physician believes that the banned procedure is the optimal one to preserve a woman's health.
	www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/jol/vol41_2/gordon.php (5075 words)

	Partial-birth Abortion Laws
		But as banning "partial birth" abortions is not intended to improve the health of women (or anyone, for that matter), it cannot be defended as a health regulation.
		Opponents of the law reject this idea and focus on the fact that other abortion procedures traditionally upheld by the Court can involve the delivery or partial delivery of a live non-viable fetus that dies as a result of the procedure.
		A partial breech delivery is not considered a "birth" at common law, where it is the passage of the head that is essential.
	members.aol.com /abtrbng/pbal.htm (2899 words)

	Senator Jeffords' Statement on "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act"
		The "so-called" Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is one of many attempts to overtly or covertly undermine and overturn the constitutional right afforded women in Roe v.
		We can reduce the number of abortions through strong support of Title X (Ten), encouraging adoption, educating on the use of emergency contraceptives, and requiring insurance policies to cover contraceptives.
		You will hear my colleagues say this definition is limited to late term abortions, or abortions performed during the third trimester or post-viability.
	jeffords.senate.gov /~jeffords/press/03/10/10212003abortion.html (671 words)

	The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban -- Misconceptions and Realities
		The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was introduced by Congressman Charles Canady (R-Fl.) on June 14, 1995.
		However, the 2000 ruling that struck down Nebraska's ban on the partial-birth abortion method was a 5-4 ruling, since Justice Kennedy -- a supporter of Roe -- voted to uphold the Nebraska ban on the partial-birth abortion method.
		Most partial-birth abortions are performed in the 18 to 26 week range, so this depicts such an abortion in the typical time period when they are performed.
	www.nrlc.org /abortion/pba/PBAall110403.html (3747 words)

	Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
		By not outlawing the medical D&X abortion procedure, and then, specifically limiting the definition of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban to applying only to a "living fetus," it is glaringly obvious that the lawmakers purposely fashioned the Act in such a way to encourage abortionists to murder up-to-full term babies in the womb first!
		Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act 2003 (Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
		Since the Act does not use this official medical term, then the D&X procedure is not banned or outlawed by any legal means of this Act.
	covenantnews.com /rudd031126.htm (1079 words)

	Partial Birth Abortion
		Annas, who obviously supports partial-birth abortion, argues in the article under discussion and in his subsequent defense of the article that there is no such thing as a partially born infant.
		As handily as he defines partial-birth abortion out of existence, Annas defines third trimester abortion out of existence: Abortion, again by definition, applies only to the non-viable fetus, therefore viable fetuses are NEVER aborted; never mind that it happens hundreds of times each day.
		Covers the subject of late term abortion in general, including partial-birth abortion and some related procedures.
	www.peopleforlife.org /pbafront.html (579 words)

	USATODAY.com - Federal judge blocks 'partial birth abortion' ban
		The law passed Congress by a wide margin and imposes a two-year prison term on a doctor who performs an abortion known medically as "intact dilation and extraction." Called partial-birth abortion by critics, it ends a pregnancy by partially delivering a living fetus and crushing or puncturing its skull.
		U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in San Francisco ruled that the ban imposed an "undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion." Her decision marks the first time a federal judge has ruled on the constitutionality of the ban since it was signed by President Bush in 2003.
		In her ruling, Hamilton wrote that the ban is unconstitutionally "vague" because its "ambiguous" language could be used to charge doctors who use similar techniques not targeted by the law.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-06-01-partial-birth_x.htm (462 words)

	Partial-birth abortion ban blocked - Politics - MSNBC.com
		But abortion providers testified the banned method can happen even at times when doctors try to avoid it, such as when they attempt to remove the fetus from the womb in pieces, which is acceptable under the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
		Abortion defenders, however, argued that a woman's health during an abortion is more important than how the fetus is terminated, and that the banned method is often a safer solution.
		In the banned procedure, which the government said was never medically necessary, a doctor partially removes a living fetus from the womb before puncturing or crushing its skull.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5112876 (1105 words)

	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995
		The bill under consideration, S. 939, is called the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act," but there is no such thing as a "partial birth abortion." This is an operation which has never been described in the medical literature, and as far as I know, it does not exist.
		Meanwhile, I was trying to prepare her for the abortion, which promised to be extremely dangerous because of a large placenta that obstructed the opening of the uterus and threatened to cause catastrophic bleeding.
		A common approach to abortion by some obstetricians who have discovered a severe fetal anomaly in an advanced pregnancy is to place prostaglandin suppositories in the vagina followed by induction of labor and expulsion of the fetus.
	www.drhern.com /USSenate95.htm (2819 words)

	H.R.1122: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997
		The Federal Bill, “The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act” of 1997, H.R. has become the model for most of the state laws, although it has been repeatedly been vetoed and attempted overrides have consistently failed in the senate.
		The woman whom a partial birth abortion was performed may not be prosecuted under this section.
		The intent of the federal legislation, as found in Thomas, was to “prohibit partial birth abortions, meaning an abortion in with the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing delivery.” Section 1531’s main points included:
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ssw/courses/20003/t6910/svctg/legislation.html (527 words)

	‘Partial birth abortion’ ban rejected - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		Carhart brought an earlier challenge that led the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 to overturn a similar abortion ban that was adopted by Nebraska lawmakers.
		Backers of the ban said a health exception would open a major loophole, allowing abortions even when the mental health of the mother is in question.
		During the procedure, generally performed in the second trimester, a fetus is partially removed from the womb and its skull is punctured or crushed.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5941648 (810 words)

	H.R. 1122 -- Partial - Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997
		H.R. 1122 prohibits "partial birth abortion" -- defined in the bill as "an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery" -- unless performance of the procedure is "necessary to save the life of the mother.
		Partial-birth abortion, the procedure prohibited under H.R. 1122, is a method that is employed from approximately the mid-point in pregnancy (i.e., after about 20 weeks' gestation) up to the time of delivery.
		This subsection establishes a civil cause of action against a person performing an abortion in violation of this section on the part of the father of the aborted fetus, and if the mother has not attained the age of 18 years, on the part of the maternal grandparents of the aborted fetus.
	www.senate.gov /~rpc/releases/1997/PARBLN.704.htm (4435 words)

	PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2000
		As an obstetrician-gynecologist, I can assure my colleagues that the partial-birth abortion procedure is the most egregious legally permitted act known to man. Decaying social and moral attitudes decades ago set the stage for the accommodated Roe vs. Wade ruling that nationalizes all laws dealing with abortion.
		Abortion on demand is no doubt the most serious social political problem of our age.
		That would be a Supreme Court that would refuse to deal with the issues of violence, recognizing that for all such acts the Constitution defers to the States.
	www.house.gov /paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr040500.htm (476 words)

	'Partial-Birth' Abortion Term Puzzles Many Doctors
		Other language in the act--"partial-birth abortions involve the killing of a child that is in the process, in fact mere inches away from, becoming a 'person'"--leads some to believe "birth" is being redefined as any fetus leaving the vagina at any time, which could apply to all abortions.
		Another second-trimester procedure that might--or might not--be banned by the act is dilation and evacuation, or D and E. As with intact D and X, the cervix is dilated and the fetus is pulled out through the vagina.
		It is therefore widely assumed that the ban is moving in on abortions performed in the second trimester, or roughly the 12th through 24th week of pregnancy, when the fetus is not yet viable.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1465 (1443 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Amar: The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
		Defenders of the federal Act argue that it is different from Nebraska's law in that Congress has made new findings to the effect that the partial-birth abortion procedure is never safer for the mother than are other procedures.
		In particular, Eddie argued, the Act does not provide a narrow and non-vague definition of the prohibited procedure itself, and the Act does not have an exception that would permit the procedure to be used when its use would be in the best interests of the mother's health.
		The restraining orders were issued by the district courts in large part because of the very significant possibility that the Act, when carefully and fully considered on the merits, will end up being invalidated as unconstitutional.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /amar/20031114.html (2090 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Amar: The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, Part Two
		This is Part Two in a two-part series on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and injunctive relief.
		At the end of my last column, I posed the following question: Suppose a statute like the recently-enacted federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is enjoined by a lower court, but then upheld as constitutional when the challenges to the statute move up the ladder.
		Someone who acts believing that his behavior is not criminal under a given statute in the first place is arguably more innocent that someone who knowingly violates a statute because he or she feels it is unconstitutional.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /amar/20031128.html (2042 words)

	Transcripts of debates on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
		Transcripts of debates on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
		Transcripts of Congressional Debates on the Proposed Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
		This distortion of our exchange is the kind of tactic which undermines efforts to reach an agreement that would ban late-term abortions, except for the most narrow circumstances where a woman's life or health was at stake....
	shinbone.home.att.net /congtran.1.htm (2380 words)

	Partial-Birth Abortion ban
		The problem with this argument is that the individuals who perform these abortions are already violating the Hippocratic Oath and Biblical values, violating basic human rights and are so callused they do things perceived as abhorrent to anyone else with an intact conscience.
		From this sense, the war is interrelated to the evil of abortion.
		And there are other techniques available for abortion that are late term in nature, and this bill would in no way stop other abortions.
	www.dutyisours.com /pba.htm (2822 words)

	USCCB - Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
		Letter to the Senate Prior to the Appointment of Conferees for the Passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S.3), Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, USCCB Committee for Pro-Life Activities, September 12, 2003
		Letter to Congress on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, USCCB Committee for Pro-Life Activities, June 3, 2003
		Letter to Congress Concerning the Partial Birth Abortion Act, H.R. March 20, 2000
	www.nccbuscc.org /prolife/issues/pba/pbaban.htm (479 words)

	Federal Abortion Ban Trials
		Last Friday, just as the Senate was set to take up John G. Roberts’ nomination to the high court, the Department of Justice asked the Court to review an appellate court decision striking the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003 down as unconstitutional.
		Gonzales, a challenge to the Federal Abortion Ban, will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, on Thursday, October 20, 2005.
		(January 15, 2005) NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Abortion Federation (NAF) vowed to defend a district court ruling striking the federal abortion ban in response to briefs filed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by the Justice Department late yesterday.
	www.federalabortionban.org (554 words)

	Partial Birth Abortion
		The Court argued, furthermore, that a "health reason" for the Partial-birth abortion procedure was present if, in the judgment of the physician, it was safer than alternative procedures.
		Why not argue, therefore, that "live-birth abortion" should be legal as a safer alternative to partial-birth abortion.
		One of the reasons given was that any proposed ban must allow the procedure "for the health of the mother." Fr.
	www.priestsforlife.org /partialbirth.html (1130 words)

	Congressman Steve Chabot - Press Release - Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Passes House Judiciary Committee
		On March 13, 2003, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 passed the Senate with a bipartisan vote of 64-33.
		The highly controversial procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion has been denounced by a wide cross-section of the medical community and banned in 27 states.
		A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that partial-birth abortion is an inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.
	www.house.gov /chabot/pbcom2003.html (258 words)

	Catholic World News : US House to Vote on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
		But five Supreme Court justices have said that partial-birth abortion is protected by Roe v.
		There's plenty of statistics that say she is alot worse off mentally after having undergone abortion than the alternative, childbirth.
		We hope that by the time this ban reaches the Supreme Court, at least five justices will be willing to reject such extremism in defense of abortion."
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=22737 (280 words)

	PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 1997
		President Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995, the veto was sustained in the
		taken in the manner of the partial-birth abortion, we are all diminished as a society.
		partial birth abortions are performed for genetic reasons.
	www.massnews.com /past_issues/2000/Culture/cult7.htm (9132 words)

	Statement of Brenda Pratt Shafer, RN - Hearing on Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
		Also on the first two days, we inserted laminaria to dilate the cervixes of women who were being prepared for the partial-birth abortions-- those who were past the 20 weeks point, or 4 1\2 months.
		I am here before you, at the request of the Committee, to relate to you my experience as an eyewitness to what is now known as the partial-birth abortion procedure.
		On the first day, we assisted in some first-trimester abortions, which is all I'd expected to be involved in.
	www.priestsforlife.org /testimony/brendatestimony.html (2008 words)

	Senate Passes Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act by 63-34 Margin; Narrowly Approves Non-Binding Pro-Roe Statement
		Washington, October 21, 1999 -- The U.S. Senate today approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act by a lopsided vote of 63-34.
		This amendment contained multiple overlapping loopholes that would have allowed abortionists to perform partial-birth abortions (or other abortions) at will, even during the final months of pregnancy.
		A July 1998 survey of American women conducted by the Princeton Survey Research Associates for the pro-abortion Center for Gender Equality found that 70% of American women favor "more restrictions" on abortion and 53% believe that abortion should be legal (at most) in cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother's life.
	tennesseerighttolife.org /news_center/archives/10211999-01.htm (424 words)

	NCBC: Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
		BOSTON, MA— The National Catholic Bioethics Center supports the passage of the “Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003” by the United States Senate.
		Partial-Birth abortion is, for all intents and purposes, an act of infanticide and a violation of the sacred and inviolable right to life of the child, a right shared by every innocent human being.
		The National Catholic Bioethics Center is pleased President George W. Bush has expressed his intent to sign the bill.
	www.ncbcenter.org /03-10-22-Abortion.asp (85 words)

	USCCB - Partial-Birth Abortion
		Partial-Birth Abortion to Be Banned, by Gail Quinn, October 24, 2003
		The Playbook on Partial-Birth Abortion, by Cathy Cleaver Ruse, November 14, 2003
		Bishops' Official Welcomes Supreme Court Decision to Hear Partial-Birth Abortion Case
	www.usccb.org /prolife/issues/pba (198 words)

	Salon Directory
		Stenberg vs. Carhart) found that a Nebraska ban on abortion by intact dilation and extraction was unconstitutional for two reasons: It provided no exception for the "health of the woman" and without such an exception, the ban placed an "undue burden" on a pregnant woman's constitutional right to choose.
		The Stenberg vs. Carhart decision effectively knocked down bans on abortion by intact dilation and extraction in 31 states, but the ruling, and the earlier vetoes by then-President Bill Clinton of two similar bans passed by Congress, did not quash efforts to outlaw the procedure.
		The justices were divided 5 to 4 on the issue, leaving abortion foes with potential wiggle room for new ban proposals, and opening up the possibility of rancorous debate on any upcoming nominations to the court.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2002/07/24/late_term/index.html (627 words)

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