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Partial-Birth Contortion

Posted Thursday, April 27, 2000, at 9:00 PM ET

On Monday the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of Nebraska's "partial-birth" abortion ban. (Click here to read a courtroom dispatch by Slate's Dahlia Lithwick.) In 1998, Atul Guwande asked why pro-lifers focus on the least disgusting—and least common—late-term abortion procedure.

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