TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe law, the ama, and partial-birth abortion
AU  - Benshoof J
Y1  - 1999/07/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.282.1.23
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 23
EP  - 27
VL  - 282
IS  - 1
N2  - 
To the Editor: The 3 articles on late-term
abortion1- 3
circled around the point on this issue: criminal laws against so-called partial-birth
abortion go beyond banning any 1 abortion procedure or just "late-term" procedures.
Even the authors define late term differently: Dr Gans Epner et al1 define it as 27 weeks or more from the last menstrual
period and Drs Sprang and Neerhof 2 as beyond
20 weeks from the last menstrual period. Neither the phrase "late term" nor
"intact dilation and evacuation" is present or defined in any of the partial-birth
abortion laws passed in 27 states or in the federal bill. Although antichoice
activists have perpetuated the myth that partial-birth abortion laws apply
to a limited set of circumstances, 17 courts across the nation have blocked
partial-birth abortion laws as unconstitutional, finding such laws could,
at any point in a pregnancy, outlaw an abortion performed using the most common
and safest procedures.4

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.282.1.23
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.282.1.23
ER  -