Foreword
On November 5, 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law. It was the latest development in the heated abortion debate, and a direct challenge to the Supreme Court, which had struck down a similar Nebraska ban only three years before in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000). In that case, the Court invalidated the law because it was overbroad and because there was no exception allowing the procedure to preserve the health of the mother.The Federal ban addressed a procedure called intact dilation and extraction (D&X), which is performed on women who are between 20…
