Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act - Effect

Effect

A 2007 article in The Boston Globe reported that, in response to this statute, many abortion providers had adopted the practice of injecting the fetus with lethal drugs before all late-term abortions. Typically, a concentrated salt solution is injected directly into the fetal heart using ultrasound to guide the needle. Even though these providers do not perform intact dilation and extraction procedures, they feel the broad wording of the ban compels them "to do all they can to protect themselves and their staff from the possibility of being accused."

Read more about this topic:  Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Famous quotes containing the word effect:

    “I care not by what measure you end the war. If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America, whatever may be your object, depend upon it, as true as effect follows cause, that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers, and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.”
    —Ernestine L. Rose (1810–1892)

    “The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment ... [ellipsis in source]”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    “Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)