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dilation and extraction

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dilation and extraction
n. Abbr. D & E or D & X
A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the early products of conception are removed from the uterus.


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The law is aimed at banning what doctors identify as intact dilation and extraction (D&X), which is used most often between twelve and twenty weeks and occasionally after twenty weeks of pregnancy, depending on the physician's determination of the best way to terminate a problem pregnancy with the woman's health interest in mind.
The bill was the third try in banning the procedure, also known formerly as intact dilation and extraction.
In regard to early medical abortions and intact dilation and extraction abortions, we asked nonhospital providers the number of procedures performed in 2000 and during the first six months of 2001.
 
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