The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was a bill introduced in the Congress of the United States in 1995 by Florida

Florida

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 Representative Charles T. Canady

Charles T. Canady

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 which prohibited intact dilation and extraction

Intact dilation and extraction

Intact dilation and extraction is a procedure done in late term abortion. It is also known as intact dilation and evacuation, dilation and extraction , intrauterine cranial decompression and, vernacularly in the United States, as partial birth abortion...

, sometimes referred to as partial-birth abortion, which the Act described as "an abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery". The bill was passed by both houses of Congress, but then veto

Veto

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ed by US President

President of the United States

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 Bill Clinton

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A similar bill was later passed in 2003 as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 is a United States law prohibiting a form of late-term abortion that the Act calls "partial-birth abortion", often referred to in medical literature as intact dilation and extraction...