abortions in the year 2000, also, according to ghouta mock. but the term was used by the antiabortion ground to garner opposition to all abortions. according to npr, quote, after a position presented a paper in the conference of the national abortion federation, describing the procedure, the national right to life committee commissioned drawings to illustrate those reports, and published them in booklet form as well as placing them as paid advertisements in newspapers to build public opposition. in an interview with a new republic magazine in 1996, the end are elsie s johnson explained that the term was thought of in hopes of as the public learned would a partial birth abortion is, they might also learn something about other abortion methods, and that this would foster a growing opposition to abortion. you hear that? they said the quiet part out loud. a term you re probably familiar with because it s been used recently in legislation that