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Federal Law FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act) Title 18 U.S.C. § 248 Recently signed into law, FACE is a federal statute (18 U.S.C. §248) that provides criminal and civil sanctions for obstructing or interfearing with a woman's access to abortion. It has sustained challenges on 1st Amendment grounds. Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act [Full text of Judiciary Cmte. Report] Unsuccessful bill to prohibit the performance of "partial-birth," "dilation and extraction" (D&X) or "intact dilation and evacuation" (intact D&E) late-term abortion procedures, which entail (1) delivery of the torso, (2) piercing the undelivered skull, (3) collapsing the skull via suction curate, and then (4) completing delivery.
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