partial-birth abortion

[pahr-shuhl-burth uh-bawr-shuhn]

noun

1. (term used chiefly by opponents of abortion) dilation and extraction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of partial-birth abortion¹

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

Anti-abortion groups created an illustration of the procedure, which they labeled partial-birth abortion, and set out to secure state and federal laws banning it.

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Anti-abortion leaders have reached to the past—some borrow from old arguments about so-called partial-birth abortion—to stoke disgust and opposition to pill-based abortions.

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Anti-abortion opponents made the fight against what they labeled partial-birth abortion the centerpiece of their struggle during the 1990s and early 2000s.

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In the opening minutes of a debate during Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 campaign for Senate, the Republican incumbent attacked him over “partial-birth abortion,” a phrase often weaponized by conservatives at the time to paint Democrats as somewhere between immoral and murderous.

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“For many years, in Ohio and in this country, we’ve had a law that said a partial-birth abortion - where the child is partially delivered and then killed and then finally delivered - was illegal in Ohio,” the governor continued.

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