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 ...

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 ...

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 ...