partial delivery

Since it's not possible to be partially born, Today's Papers prefers "partial delivery abortion."

The law defines that procedure as the partial delivery of a living fetus, and the performance of "an overt act" intended to kill it.

A bill to ban a type of abortion that involves the partial delivery of a live fetus will be considered today by the Assembly health committee.

In the Arkansas case, the judges wrote that "partial delivery occurs as part of other recognized abortion procedures, methods that are concededly constitutionally protected."

Our reasons for supporting the bill are simple: the partial delivery of a living fetus for the purpose of killing it outside the womb is ethically offensive to most Americans and physicians.

An FOTP coffee cup goes to James S. Thompson, M.D., of Newburyport, Massachusetts, for the simple but effective "partial delivery abortion."

What if the truck driver says that he will take back the nightstand with the missing drawer handle, but that he does not make partial deliveries, so the whole bedroom set will have to go back, too?

Anti-abortion groups portray the abortion method under attack in Congress as brutal, arguing that the partial delivery of the fetus, and the suctioning of the brain through the back of the neck, amounts to killing a fetus "three inches from personhood."

A party whose ability to perform his obligations has only been partially affected must allocate production and delivery among his customers in a manner which is fair and reasonable, affording each of them with partial performance, and must notify all purchasers that there will be delay, partial delivery, or non-delivery.