intact dilation and extraction

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intact dilation and extraction

Abbr. intact D & X or IDX A late-term surgical abortion in which the cervix is dilated and the fetus is partially delivered into the vagina before being extracted. Also called intact dilation and evacuation, partial-birth abortion.

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Heller asserted that the district court found "an appreciable health risk" from prohibiting the intact dilation and extraction abortion procedure.

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The medical community calls it intact dilation and extraction.

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What is intact dilation and extraction, if it is not partial-birth abortion?

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at 928 (quoting American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Executive Board, Statement on Intact Dilation and Extraction (Jan.

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They used myths and misrepresentations about abortion procedures to defend their decision and uphold a prohibition on intact dilation and extraction abortion.

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Supreme Court endorsed this strategy of demonizing women in order to disenfranchise them when it upheld the federal ban on intact dilation and extraction, a rarely used method of abortion.

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The abortion ban will now force doctors to consider alternative abortion procedures that could be riskier to a woman's health than intact dilation and extraction, which according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is the "safest" procedure for women suffering from certain health conditions.

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Instead the justices will address two other issues raised by Nebraska: (1) that the ban should be narrowly construed to apply only to the "intact dilation and extraction" (D&X) procedure and not include D&E abortions, and (2) that the law is not unconstitutional under the "undue burden" standard articulated by the Court in Casey.