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Originally Posted by timj219
1) What I'm fixated on is sticking to the subject.
2) There is no such thing as a "PBA". What I and ACOG are talking about is "Intact Dilation and Extraction"
3) Abortion is a legal procedure. ACOG claims that in some circumstance Intact Dilation and Extraction is the safest method to accomplish that procedure. Congress (and now the court) have ignored the medical advice of the doctors most intimately familiar with the issue in an effort to "protect" women by denying them what is sometimes the safest method of abortion. Trying to frame the issue in any other terms is just dishonest.
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The law in question clearly defines what Partial Birth Abortion is. If that term had no legal meaning before, it does now. If that isn't what your talking about, then you aren't talking about this law.
The law still allows Intact Dilation & Extraction as far the the intact extraction of the fetus goes; there is no ban on that. The ban only applies when, after the extraction is part-way completed, the doctor then actively and purposefully kills the baby/fetus.
All aspects of Intact Dilation & Extraction that benefit the mother are still perfectly legal, on the the additional act of actively killing the fetus has been outlawed.