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The Presidential Candidates' Positions on Partial-Birth Abortion.
Present and potential Republican presidential candidates who voted for one or more versions of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Congress include: Sen. Sam Brownback, former Rep. Newt Gingrich, Sen. Chuck Hagel, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Sen. John McCain, Rep. Ron Paul, Rep. Tom Tancredo, and former Sen. Fred Thompson. The bill was signed into law by President Bush in 2003.
Additionally, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed a partial-birth abortion ban into law in Arkansas in 1997. Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson signed that state's partial-birth abortion ban in 1997. Former Virginia Governor James Gilmore signed a partial-birth abortion ban into law in 1998.
Neither former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani nor former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney acted or took any executive action on a partial-birth abortion ban in their respective states. Both issued statements in support of the Court's decision uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
However, according to the Los Angeles Times, Giuliani took an opposite position when he was running for reelection in 1997. "On an abortion rights group's questionnaire, he circled 'yes' next to the question of whether he would oppose 'legislation that would make criminals of doctors who perform intact D&X abortions'the technical term for what critics call 'partial-birth' abortions." ...
- ACTIONALERT Urge your senators to demand that the Senate send the Partial-Birth...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News September 1, 2002 700+ words
...already passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965), and...demanding action on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act now! Please visit the...House passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965) in July...
- Judge rules against abortion ban.(Law & Justice; Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act...
- Magazine article from: Jet June 21, 2004 700+ words
...Caption: JUDGE RULES AGAINST ABORTION BAN: U.S. District Judge Phyllis...recently declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Act unconstitutional, ruling...extraction, known as "partial-birth" abortion by abortion opponents. Justice...
- 'Partial-birth abortion' ban goes to high court: Justices to hear 2 challenges...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) November 6, 2006 700+ words
...fatal flaw because "partial-birth abortion" is not a medical term. The federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 says a physician...knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus...
- Action Alert Urge your senators to demand that the Senate send the...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News August 1, 2002 700+ words
...edition about the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which has passed the...vote on sending the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965) to President...already passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H.R. 4965) by an...
- Georgetown U.: Santorum defends partial-birth abortion ban at Georgetown.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 26, 2004 700+ words
...strongest advocates of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban passed by Congress last November...s support of the partial-birth abortion ban overlooked women's health considerations. "[Partial-birth abortion] bill supporters flagrantly...
- U. Arizona: COLUMN: Partial-birth abortion ban liberating.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 28, 2006 700+ words
...enforcement of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The law defines partial-birth abortion as "an abortion in which the...the first federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was passed. It was described...
- House approves parental rights bill and ban on partial-birth abortion; senate...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News August 12, 1998 700+ words
...Protection Act and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. The House of Representatives...Clinton's veto of the partial-birth abortion ban. A week later, the Senate...Clinton's veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (HR 1122). That was...
- American Life League Response to New York Decision in Partial- Birth Abortion...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire August 26, 2004 700+ words
...by a federal judge in New York that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is unconstitutional: Because the so-called partial-birth abortion ban because contains a life of the mother exception that...
- Federal Abortion Ban Trials Begin Today in New York, San Francisco, and...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 29, 2004 700+ words
...defines the term "partial-birth abortion" so broadly that it would prohibit...signed into law the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003," the first federal...protect women. The Federal Abortion Ban suffers from these very same...
- Partial Birth Abortion Ban. (Policy & Practice).
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Peters, Sally August 1, 2002 700+ words
...introduced legislation to prohibit the so-called partial birth abortion procedure. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) has introduced HR. 4965, the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2002." Attorneys for the Center for Reproductive...
Source: HighBeam Research, The Presidential Candidates' Positions on Partial-Birth Abortion.