  More good information:  *The Physicians’ Ad Hoc Coalition for Truth (PHACT)  a group of over 600 physician-specialists (mostly in obstetrics, perinatology, and related disciplines)  has spoken out to dispute claims that some women need partial-birth abortions to avoid serious physical injury.   PHACT said:  “We, and many other doctors across the United States, regularly treat women whose unborn children suffer these and other serious conditions.  Never is the partial-birth procedure medically indicated.  Rather, such infants are regularly and safely delivered live, vaginally, with no threat to the mother's health or fertility.”  In September, 1996, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and other PHACT members said that “partial-birth abortion is never medically necessary to protect a mother's health or her future fertility.  On the contrary, this procedure can pose a significant threat to both.” *In May, 1997, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (then H.R. 1122) was endorsed by the American Medical Association.  In a letter to Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), AMA Executive Vice President P. John Seward, M.D., wrote, “Thank you for the opportunity to work with you towards restricting a procedure we all agree is not good medicine.”   