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Senate Set to OK Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
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| Last Edited | Wabash Oct 21, 2003 02:49pm |
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| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 21, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | After years of emotional debate, Congress on Tuesday stood ready to send President Bush legislation to ban what critics call partial birth abortion (search), the most significant restriction since the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion three decades ago.
Abortion rights groups promised to challenge the law in court as soon as President Bush signed it.
"This is an enormous day. It's been a long seven-year fight about the issue of partial birth abortion," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. He was a leader of the drive to end abortions, generally carried out in the second or third trimester, in which a fetus is partially delivered before being killed.
Passage was expected by a wide margin, three weeks after the House passed an identical bill, 281-142. |
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