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Article: Key terms in the debate.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2007
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Byline: Marie McCullough
Apr. 19--For more than a decade, "partial-birth abortion" has been a matter of passionate debate -- and deep confusion. Here is a primer on the medicine, law and politics behind the ban that the Supreme Court upheld yesterday. What is meant by "partial-birth abortion"?
This is verbatim from the federal ban: "An abortion in which the person performing the abortion deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside ...