Should Abortion Rights Be Restricted? | Laws That Prohibit Late-Term Abortion Put Mothers at Risk
Stuart Taylor is a senior writer for the National Journal, a weekly publication on politics, policy, and government.
Summary: In June 2000, the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska ban on partial-birth abortions. According to Nebraska’s statute, “Partialbirth abortion means an abortion procedure in which the person performing the abortion partially delivers vaginally a living unborn child before killing the unborn child and completing the delivery.” Many pro-life advocates argue that partial-birth abortion laws would outlaw a rare and gruesome...
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