Parial birth Abortions
The Senate voted to ban the practice of partial birth abortion, sending President Bush a measure that could alter the future of U. ... However, the two sides differed on the definition of partial birth abortion, which is not a formal medical term. The bill defines partial birth abortion as delivery of a fetus, the fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, any part of the fetal body past the navel is outside the body of the mother, the doctor will kill the partially delivered living fetus. ... President Clinton twice vetoed partial birth bills on the grounds that they did not include health exceptions. ... , desperate women often paid excessive fees to obtain abortions, from unlicensed, untrained practitioners working in non-sterile conditions. Dangerous medical complications were likely to follow these illegal abortions.