Martin haskell partial birth abortions

Following years of pressure from legislators, activists, and eventually the Ohio Department of Health, an abortion clinic in Sharonville, Ohio may finally close its doors on Friday. If that happens, Lebanon Road Surgery Center’s closure will be more than just a victory for the local anti-abortion movement.

It will be celebrated nationally as a win over the doctor who changed the face of abortion provision back in the 1990s.

The clinic in dispute is owned by Dr. Martin Haskell M.D., the face of so-called “partial birth abortion.”

Dr. Haskell didn’t in fact invent partial birth abortion, which isn’t a technical medical term.

But after he presented on intact D&X; to a 1992 meeting of abortion providers, it became synonymous with his name.

Intact D&X;, short for “intact dilation and extraction procedure,” is the process in which a fetus in the second trimester or later has its limbs and body brought in one intact piece through the cer