Issuing the standard challenge -
still not met!! Tell us:
- At what stage it is performed?
- Who is a suitable candidate
- Who should it not be used on
- What makes it better than other procedures
- what limitations does it have
- what is the sequence of steps involved in the proper completion of this PBA?
- what medical instrumentation are used?
- etc etc etc
In other words give us as detailed a description of this Phantom Procedure - PBA - as Dr. Haskell gave for the ID&X. When you've done that tell us where the description you give is written up, and where it was presented to a peer group as a protocol usually is.
If you can't find the information, in this detail, in a medical paper, law journal, or legislative bill, then perhaps you might ask yourself why. Is it because there is no description, in any detail, of the Phantom Procedure? Don't feel badly if you fail to find it - because it doesn't exist and never did. There are many many dupes of the Anti Abortion Propaganda Industry ( AAPI)
about the need for Late Term abortions. A number of claims have been made, that there never is a need for late term abortion. This ACOG answers these claims.
The Phantom Procedure is actually not a medical procedure at all. It's really just an advertising slogan.
If the so called PBA was actually a late term procedure, as claimed, and was a variation of D&X as is implied in some of the written information then how often would it be used?
In August 1998 the AMA devoted a good deal of spave in their journal to the issue of later, and late term abortion (they are different things). Frequently one of those articles is misrepresented by abortion opponents.
With control of both the House and the Senate Republicans revived the Phantom Procedure ban in 2003 despite the fact that they have to have been told by their legal advisers that the bill as presented is unconstitutional.