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Volume 339:1716-1717 December 3, 1998 Number 23
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Partial-Birth Abortion

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To the Editor: In his article on partial-birth abortion (July 23 issue),1 Annas neglects to mention the true legal basis for laws banning partial-birth abortion. As we have reported elsewhere, overwhelming majorities of two Congresses2 and the legislatures of 24 states3 passed laws to ban the procedure. Since our report was published, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wisconsin have enacted such laws, bringing the total number of states with partial-birth bans of various kinds to 28. However else they may differ, these statutes are all intended to ban a procedure used to kill a child who is partially born. With the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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