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...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
...McMahon has developed his own method that he calls intrauterine cranial decompression. He arranges the fetus so that he can remove it feet first. Before the skull emerges, he 'collapses' it by inserting a three-millimeter instrument known as a cannula and extracting its fluid. By keeping the fetus intact, he says, he runs less risk of internal injury to the woman...
...best I know, this was the first time that any news account mentioned the procedure that other practitioners would later rename "intact dilation and extraction." It didn't make much of a stir at the time. But when the anti-abortion movement picked up on it in the mid-1990s and attached its own label - "partial birth abortion" - it became the rallying cry with which opponents began reversing many of the gains that the pro-choice movement had made over the previous two decades. This week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure, which is a move...
...suffering genetic or developmental abnormalities. Furthermore, in most cases where the procedure is used, the physical health of the woman whose pregnancy is being terminated is not in jeopardy. In virtually all cases, there are alternative ways to perform the abortion safely, though perhaps not as safely as when intact D&E is used...
...which the other side has attacked the procedure is misleading as well. Do abortion foes really see it as more objectionable than any other alternative at that stage in pregnancy? The only real difference for the fetus is where the abortion occurs: as dismemberment in the uterus, or as intact destruction several inches down the birth canal. But for the woman, there is often a big difference. Medical professionals who use the more controversial procedure say it is significantly easier on the woman, and that it could make a difference in her ability to bear children later in life, when...