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...Nebraska defines a "partial-birth abortion" as a procedure in which someone "performing the abortion partially delivers vaginally a living unborn child before killing the child and completing the delivery." However, "partial-birth abortion" is a misleading term--as well as a non-medical one--because the Nebraska law and the popular debate applies only to pre-viability abortions in which the fetus is unable to live outside the womb and therefore could not be "born" and survive...
...complete the procedure, the doctor punctures its skull and extracts its contents. In a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, the woman's cervix is also dilated, but the fetus is dismembered before being removed in pieces through the vagina. Under questioning from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg conceded that the state could not constitutionally prohibit D&E abortions...
Most courts have agreed, blocking or strictly limiting such laws in 20 of 30 states that have them. The Bush-appointed lower- court judge who threw out Nebraska's law attached a drawing of the female pelvic anatomy to his opinion to show how the ban would encroach on common abortion methods. If the Supreme Court agrees with him, it will almost certainly throw out this law and others like it for flunking the court's test that abortion restrictions can't place an "undue burden" on a woman's right to choose...
...Nebraska attorney general Don Stenberg, who is the leading G.O.P. contender for the state's open Senate seat, says Nebraskans think partial-birth abortion is "barbaric." And in most polls on the issue, a majority of Americans say they would favor making it illegal. Congress has marched in step, passing partial-birth bans by overwhelming margins, though not quite enough to override President Clinton's vetoes. But abortion-rights supporters say a better measure of public opinion is the vote in the three states where the issue has been on the ballot and voters have become more informed...
...Carhart, the decision, which is expected in late June, will determine if he stays in business as one of only three abortion providers in the state and the only one who performs abortions after 16 weeks. He says that if the Nebraska law stands, he will shut his practice down rather than risk a $25,000 fine and 20 years in prison. Some women travel more than 25 hours by bus from the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation to get his help, which he advertises with an immense new sign on the side of the building. A smaller, older sign...