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MISCONCEPTIONS AND REALITIES REGARDING PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION.
WASHINGTON - - On November 5, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a federal law to ban nationwide the abortion method in which the premature infant is mostly delivered alive before being killed.
The new law was promptly challenged by an array of pro-abortion groups, including the National Abortion Federation, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the ACLU. On March 29, federal district courts in New York, Nebraska, and California began to conduct separate trials on these legal challenges.
(Further information on the trials appears on page 24 of this issue. Updates will appear from time to time on the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org)
NRLC led the coalition that resulted in enactment of this federal law after an eight-year fight. The NRLC website contains the Internet's most expansive archive of documents pertaining to all facets of the debate over partial-birth abortion, at: http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/index.html
Anyone examining this issue will benefit from reading, at a minimum, "Partial-Birth Abortion: Misconceptions and Realities," a memo written by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, who has played a key role in the long debate over the legislation. This memo addresses common misconceptions and misinformation about partial-birth abortion, with links to primary documents, including interviews with partial-birth abortionists and investigative reports in American Medical News, The New York Times, PBS, and other news media. The memo is posted here: http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBAall110403.html
The memo addresses these topics: the actual language and legal intent of the bill; why "partial-birth abortion" is a legal term of art that is NOT synonymous with various pseudo-medical jargon terms used by the law's opponents; how use of the nebulous label "late-term abortion" distorts the debate; whether President Bush's statement (November 5, 2003) that partial-birth abortion is violence directed against those who are "inches from birth" is medically and legally accurate; evidence regarding minimum numbers of partial-birth abortions; acknowledgments by the National Coalition of Abortion Providers that "in the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a ...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News Johnson, Douglas September 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News O'Bannon, Randall K. July 6, 1999 700+ words
...addresses the scourge of partial-birth abortion and the new four-page...others learn more. The partial-birth abortion issue has helped to galvanize...Because of the debate over partial-birth abortion, people have discovered...
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...recent incarnation of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban(1)--a controversial...their own versions of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, only some of which...overbreadth challenges to the partial-birth abortion bans, and the procedural...
