On November 5, 2003, President Bush signed The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act into law, thus instituting a nation-wide, late-term abortion ban. Fearful that Congress' democratic majority will lead to an overturning of this ban, Arkansas introduced a state bill with the same name to ensure that the state will not legalize the procedure anytime in the near future.
About Late-Term Abortion
Late-term abortion, known to anti-abortion activists as "Partial Birth Abortion," is a procedure only performed in extreme circumstances. According to data from 2003 in the US, before the procedure was banned, late-term abortions (regarded as some time between 20 and 27 weeks gestation) accounted for only 1.4% of all abortions performed in the country.
Reasons for Late-Term Abortion
Gretchen Voss' article, "My Late Term Abortion" was written for The Boston Globe in January 2004. In it, Voss writes about her highly traumatic, and totally necessary, late-term abortion. Her fetus had hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid in the cavities of the brain, and had an open neural tube defect, making it highly unlikely the fetus would survive to term. Even if it did, would require extensive and multiple surgeries to live, which wouldn't begin to repair the damage it was born with.
This is just one of many sad but factual occurrences of fetal abnormalities that will result in certain and early death for a child.
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