KEY DOCUMENTS ON MEDICAL ISSUES RELATING TO PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION

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  Illustrations, certified as accurate by eminent medical authorities, of the typical partial-birth abortion method (in the sixth month).
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm

The term "partial-birth abortion" -- you can look it up in medical dictionary HERE.

  What eminent medical experts told Congress about the pain that partial-birth abortion causes to the baby.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/index.html

  1992 paper in which Ohio abortionist Dr. Martin Haskell explained step by step how to perform the method, and why he prefers it.

  Original 1993 American Medical News interviews with Dr. James McMahon (inventor of partial-birth abortion method) and Dr. Martin Haskell (author of the famous 1992 instructional/promotional paper).
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/AmericanMedicalNews1993.pdf

  A revealing 1993 interview with Dr. Haskell in Cincinnati Medcine:
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/Haskell%20Cincinnati%20Medicine.pdf

  1995 American Medical News article containing interviews with abortionist Warren Hern and others on medical issues surrounding partial-birth abortion:
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/AMA%20News%201995%20Hern.pdf

President Clinton appeared with a group of women who, he claimed, had needed partial-birth abortions to save their lives or prevent grave physical health damage.  Read the real reasons in this transcript of a 1996 radio debate between NRLC's Douglas Johnson and one of the women: http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/JohnsonAdesinterview041096.html
Read what medical authorities say about such cases here:  http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/pbafact13.html

  She was a "pro-choice" nurse until she witnessed a partial-birth abortion.  Read her account here.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/pbacampaign.html

  The head of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers tells The New York Times that the method is common and "in the vast majority of cases. . . is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along." (1997)
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PBA%20NYT%20lied.pdf

  1995 letter from emininent medical authority Watson Bowes, professor of fetal and maternal medicine at the University of North Carolina, on medical issues pertinent to partial-birth abortion:
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/Bowes%20on%20disputed%20issues%201995.pdf

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop on partial-birth abortion (1996):
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/Koop%20on%20partial-birth%20abortion%201996.pdf

  1997 letter signed by numerous professors of obstetrics and other medical authorities in support of ban:
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/PHACTtoACOG.pdf

  American Medical News report: head of abortion-providers association repudiated untruths on partial-birth abortion (1997):
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/AMAFitzimmons1997.pdf


  Letter from American Medical Association endorsing 1997 version of ban, calling method "not medically indicated" and "not good medicine."
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/amaletter.html
or in PDF:
http://www.nrlc.org/Federal/AMA_endorses_PBA_ban.pdf