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Checked by PolitiFact19 May 2021United States Health

Xavier Becerra, HHS secretary

“There is no law that deals specifically with the term ‘partial-birth abortion.’”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Congress passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2003, and the Supreme Court upheld it in 2007. Becerra was a member of Congress and voted against the law when it came up in the House.