Several states still permitted them, and such action could have prevented far more abortions than the partial-birth bill, but the anti-abortion forces in Congress killed it.

几个州仍批准了禁令，这样的做法原本可以比“部分分娩流产术”法案阻止更多的堕胎行为，但国会反对堕胎的势力扼杀了它。