The federal ban on a type of late abortion was challenged in three courtrooms across the United States Monday as abortion-rights activists argued that the law is so broad it infringes on women's basic right to choose.
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A new federal law banning certain types of late abortions is unconstitutional and threatens women's access to abortions, a lawyer for plaintiffs said at the start of one of three trials on the law getting under way Monday.
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A woman priest won permission Monday to challenge the refusal of police to prosecute doctors who carried out a late abortion on a woman who said she did not want her baby because it had a cleft lip and palate.
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"There are a large number of second trimester terminations in this country and they are of two versions, " said Dr . Richard Hausknecht, a New York City gynecologist who used to perform late abortions but no longer does so.
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One abortion specialist said she believed the stream of patients to specialists is getting heavier, prompted by a growing reluctance among obstetricians with other specialties to perform later abortions, including those in which the pregnancy is failing on its own.
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When she becomes pregnant at the age of 18, Hata insists that she have a dangerously late abortion _ less out of a desire to protect her options in life than out of a compulsion to preserve his own good name.
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During two years of stormy debate over " partial birth " abortions, the doctors who actually perform late abortions sat on the sidelines, listening to the impassioned, and often incorrect, rhetoric wrap itself around a medical procedure that few of them use.
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Thomas Aquinas, Pope Innocent III, and Pope Gregory XIV also believed that a fetus does not have a soul until " quickening, " or when the fetus begins to kick and move, and therefore early abortion was not murder, though later abortion was.
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The method used in most late abortions is known as D & E, for dilation and evacuation, in which the cervix is dilated and the fetus, which may have already been killed by an injection of drugs, is broken apart inside the uterus, then suctioned out.
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The method used in most late abortions is known as D & AMP; E, for dilation and evacuation, in which the cervix is dilated and the fetus, which may have already been killed by an injection of drugs, is broken apart inside the uterus, then suctioned out.
