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. . . with respect to his own feelings and circumstances, the most ordinary man or woman has means of knowledge immeasurably surpassing those that can be possessed by anyone else.

— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

The signing into law of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 by President George W. Bush has brought to the surface, yet again, the bitterly divisive subject of abortion. Is this bill, as it states, simply an act intended to ban "a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary"?¹ Or is it a carefully calculated first step in a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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