Should Abortion Rights Be Restricted? | Partial-Birth Abortion Is Legal Infanticide
Brian Fahling is the senior trial attorney for the American Family Association’s Center for Law and Policy.
Summary: In June 2000, the Supreme Court declared in Stenberg v. Carhart that a Nebraska statute that forbade partial-birth abortion was unconstitutional. Nebraska’s statute was based upon the medical and legal definition of abortion, which defines abortion as the death of the fetus within the uterus. The partial-birth abortion procedure requires induced labor and the partial delivery of the fetus before it is killed. Once the fetus...
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