The same groups successfully used lurid descriptions of an abortion procedure known as intact dilation and extraction, or D&X, to ban it nationwide in 2003, a law the Supreme Court upheld in 2007 ...

Partial-birth abortion, or, more accurately, intact dilation and extraction, is a technique by which a non-viable fetus is removed from a woman’s uterus. The skull of the fetus is collapsed via a ...

Abortionists sometimes refer to these or similar types of abortions using obscure, clinical-sounding euphemisms such as "Dilation and Extraction" (D&X), or "intact D&E" (IDE) which mask the ...

According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit group that does sexual and reproductive health research and supports abortion rights, 2,200 intact dilation-and-extraction abortions were ...

performed by fewer than two dozen physicians in the country and known medically as “intact dilation and evacuation,” takes place relatively late in pregnancy, generally after the 20th week ...