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...prohibits one very specific and very rare type of abortion procedure: Intact Dilation and Extraction (IDX). In IDX, a physician delivers all of a second-trimester fetus’s body except the head, punctures the base of the skull, and then suctions the skull contents before removing the head from the mother’s body...
...accordance with the precedent from the Roe-affirming Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court took up the question of whether the ban of IDX placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to abortion. The Court decided that the ban did not unduly burden women because IDX is such a rare procedure (according to the Guttmacher Institute, only 0.17 percent of abortions in 2000 were IDX) and because the ban clearly did not restrict the much more widely-used (and closely substitutable) second-trimester abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation...
...abortionists so down in the dumps? Their main complaint is that the law does not contain a general exception for the health of the mother. Several experts have testified, though, that IDX never provides health advantages over...
...join in the Thomas concurrence, hinting that they may stand with the liberal-to-moderate justices of the court in supporting the controversial premise of the right to abortion. (However, some commentators have pointed out that Roberts and Alito may have felt that a case dealing specifically with IDX was not the right time to unveil their entire abortion jurisprudence...
...industry. Most e-scription start-ups, once flush with venture capital, are on the block, looking to be acquired or to align with bigger fish that can offer womb-to-tomb IT solutions. IBM's new venture will probably be a buyer, and Allscripts already has a deal with IDX, whose own back-office, practice-management system is used by more than 100,00 doctors. "This whole industry is so fragmented," says Wygod. "In order to make it more efficient, you can't have so many different players." Wygod just has to hope that when the paper chase...