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partial-birth abortion.
Main Entry:
par·tial-birth abortion
Pronunciation: 'pär-sh&l-
Function: noun
: an abortion in the second or third trimester of pregnancy in which
the death of the fetus is induced after it has passed partway through
the birth canal |
Partial-Birth
Abortion --
You Can Look It
Up in the
Medical
Dictionary!
By Douglas Johnson
NRLC Legislative Director
Legfederal@aol.com
October 29, 2003
You have probably heard pro-abortion spokespersons
claim that "partial-birth abortion" is a "political" term that is "not found
in medical dictionaries." (Example: NOW President Kim Gandy, Oct. 21,
2003, press release: "Try as you might, you won't find the term 'partial
birth abortion' in any medical dictionary.") This claim is
diversionary, since "partial-birth abortion" is a LEGAL term of art that is
defined by Congress in the bill itself (S. 3).
However, the claim is also untrue. If you go to major
medical websites such as
Medline at the National Institutes of Health,
or the
Intelihealth
site affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, and use the
medical dictionary search tools (which access the Merriam Webster Medical
Dictionary), you find "partial-birth abortion" defined as "an abortion in
the second or third trimester of pregnancy in which the death of the fetus
is induced after it has passed partway through the birth canal." See:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276.html
By the way, this widely used medical dictionary does
NOT list the pseudo-medical jargon terms that pro-abortion groups insist are
the proper "medical" terms for the method, "dilation and extraction,"
"intact dilation and evacuation," or "intact dilation and extraction."
For further information on this subject, see "Call
It Partial-Birth Abortion -- It's the Law!" (requires free Adobe
Acrobat Reader).
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/CallItPBA.pdf
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