April 17, 2000

House passes abortion bill
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--The House of Representatives voted April 5 to ban a controversial late-term abortion procedure known in the medical community as intact dilation and extraction and called by its opponents "partial-birth abortion."
___The vote came despite a promised veto by President Clinton, who has twice vetoed similar legislation.
___"Partial-birth abortion is a barbaric procedure that has no place in a civilized society," said House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas. "I hope the president will search his heart and do the right thing."
___Both his vetoes have been overriden by the House, whose bipartisan 287 to 141 vote this year again provides the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto.
___But the Senate, which approved a companion bill last fall, has sustained Clinton's vetoes each time and is expected to do so again.
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