Original sentence: However, critics claim that most partial-birth abortions are elective.Partial-birth abortion (PBA) is a controversial term sometimes used to refer to "Intact dilation and extraction" ("IDX" or "Intact D&X").Pro-life critics of the procedure call it "infanticide" or "murder," and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 describes it as "a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary"  - though it should be noted that the law was written by politicians whose expertise in what is "medically necessary" is subject to question.The term PBA is not a medical one but is the common term used in public, political and legal discourse — chiefly regarding the legality of abortion in the United States, and specifically the humanity of this procedure
Edited sentence: Although the term is controversial to some, "partial-birth abortion" is now the default term used by television and print media, sometimes with qualifiers.However, the inventor of the procedure has stated that most partial-birth abortions are elective.Likewise the abortion procedure it describes is controversial to some.Partial-birth abortion (PBA) is a term used to refer to "Intact dilation and extraction" ("IDX" or "Intact D&X").Pro-life critics of the procedure call it "infanticide" or "murder," and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 describes it as "a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary".Those in favor of the ban counter that under such logic the laws against murder would also be an unconstitutional enactment of one of the biblical Ten Commandments into law