She referred to the procedure as intact dilation and evacuation.

Dilation and evacuation is also reported to be safer than instillation methods.

Not all such late-term abortions are performed through intact dilation and evacuation.

A dilation and evacuation involves two major steps.

The precise number of such abortions, known technically as intact dilation and evacuation, is unknown.

Dilation and evacuation is a safe and effective method.

Intact dilation and evacuation, a method used in the second and third trimesters, is not common.

Dilation and evacuation (D&E) is one of the methods available for a second-trimester abortion.

For more advanced pregnancies, vacuum aspiration may be used as one step in a dilation and evacuation procedure.

In Mrs. Klein's case, doctors planned a procedure called dilation and evacuation.

Instead, the abortion must be done by dilation and evacuation, in which the doctor essentially pulls the fetus out of the anesthesized woman.

The Nebraska ban allowed other second-trimester abortion procedures called dilation and evacuation abortions.

Dilation and evacuation (or "D&E") is a medical procedure.

Eleven states have enacted bans on the procedure, known medically as "intact dilation and evacuation."

This instrumental procedure is normally what is meant when the term dilation and evacuation is used.

He has also voted several times to ban the "intact dilation and evacuation" or "partial-birth abortion" procedure.

Dilation and evacuation (D&E) is done in the second 12 weeks (second trimester) of pregnancy.

The risks of dilation and evacuation (D&E) include:

He called the proposed ban on the intact dilation and evacuation procedure "preposterous and outrageous on its face."

The highly specialized procedure that the bill would outlaw, known medically as intact dilation and evacuation, is performed only after 20 weeks of gestation.

Tertullian, a 2nd- and 3rd-century Christian theologian, also described surgical implements which were used in a procedure similar to the modern dilation and evacuation.

At the heart of the controversy is a relatively uncommon abortion procedure, called intact dilation and evacuation, that is performed after 20 weeks of gestation.

Dilation and evacuation (D&E)

Those who drafted the legislation said they did not believe it would interfere with second-trimester abortions performed by the standard method of dilation and evacuation, or D&E.