{"id":3574,"date":"2023-11-13T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalpedia.ai\/articles\/uncategorized\/the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-act-of-2003-a-clarifying-explanation\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:30:50","slug":"the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-act-of-2003-a-clarifying-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalpedia.ai\/articles\/the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-act-of-2003-a-clarifying-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003: A Clarifying Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was a Congressional Act that successfully prohibited the procedure that opponents refer to as partial-birth abortion. The Act declared the procedure an unlawful act and defined it as any abortion procedure in which the person performing the procedure \u201cdeliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living unborn child\u201d up to the navel of the pregnant woman \u201cfor the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living unborn child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Act amended an earlier law that prohibited the procedure from 1995, but did not specify an exact definition of the procedure. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 specified the allowed exceptions to the ban, which include medical procedures needed to save the life of the mother, or to prevent permanent damage to the mother\u2019s health. 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