At this point, a full dilation and extraction is needed.

Why would such women then choose intact dilation and extraction?

Most abortions are done much earlier on in the pregnancy, so a full dilation and extraction is usually not needed.

It is also sometimes called dilation and extraction.

However, he has voted against the legalization of Intact dilation and extractions.

To some, it describes a particular procedure that physicians call "intact dilation and extraction."

The first was Ohio, which in 1995 enacted a law that referred to the procedure as dilation and extraction.

Haskell was not the first physician to perform intact dilation and extraction.

The senators were debating a procedure known technically as intact dilation and extraction.

Sponsors of the law said it was intended to outlaw only one specific procedure, known as the intact dilation and extraction.

In such cases, doctors prefer to use the dilation and extraction procedure, one kind of abortion the proposed legislation prohibits.

Anti-abortion groups call that partial-birth abortion; doctors use the term intact dilation and extraction.

The bill would ban the abortion procedure, known medically as intact dilation and extraction, except when needed to save the pregnant woman's life.

The demand for files is not limited to records of that type of abortion, known medically as intact dilation and extraction.

Michigan's law also contained provisions that would have prohibited abortion procedures beyond the dilation and extraction procedure, the appeals court said Monday.

He vetoed several bills passed by the state legislature regarding abortion including a ban on intact dilation and extraction abortions.

Public opinion polls last year showed that three-fourths of Americans favored banning the procedure, whose technical name is intact dilation and extraction.

Only three of the 12 doctors said they preferred the method singled out in the ban, the intact dilation and extraction of a fetus.

The vetoed bill would have criminalized only one - a technique called dilation and extraction - that medical experts say is the safest of the three.

In the procedure, known medically as intact dilation and extraction, the fetus is partly delivered, feet first, before scissors are stuck into its skull.

He performs hundreds of late abortions every year and has doubts about the safety of the intact dilation and extraction method.

The specific procedure at issue, known technically as intact dilation and extraction, is generally used to abort fetuses after 20 weeks of gestation.

The law applies to a type of abortion, known medically as intact dilation and extraction, used to terminate pregnancies in the second or third trimester.

Intact dilation and extraction was developed by Dr. James McMahon in 1983.

The ban's proponents cloak their strategy by directing attention to a rare medical procedure used in late-term abortions called "intact dilation and extraction."