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...anti-choice advocates that have been seeking to pass legislation regulating abortion procedures, the third time has proven to be a charm. Last Tuesday, the House approved a bill banning a method of late-term abortion performed during the second-trimester. Now, after two failed attempts at getting the bill signed into law over the past eight years—President Clinton twice vetoed the ban—Republicans control the White House as well as Congress, and President Bush will soon sign its new restrictions into law. The legislation would hold doctors attempting the procedure liable to two years...
...have politicized the practice, dubbing it “partial-birth abortion” and barraging Congressional discourse with anecdotal narratives entailing grisly depictions of the procedure. They fail, of course, to iterate that this procedure is used in less than one percent of abortion cases, is the safest method of second-trimester abortion and is often essential in protecting the life of the woman—clearly one of the more salient details in its defense...
...American Medical Association, in their position paper H-5.982, advises that “according to the scientific literature, there does not appear to be any identified situation in which [the method] is the only appropriate procedure to induce abortion...
According to Harvard College Professor Richard M. Losick, numerous Harvard science departments will benefit from the method...
Empress Dou's coffin is surrounded by a wooden structure called huangchang ticou, a burial method reserved for Han dynasty emperors and their wives and concubines...