11. One of her clients, upon becoming pregnant, actually threatened to abort the fetus if she learned it was male. 12. One aborted its fetus and died. 13. Proponents of abortion rights countered with three tearful women who had undergone the abortion technique in question within the last year to abort fetuses with severe abnormalities. 14. Reduction, selectively aborting some fetuses, is an option for multiple pregnancies. 15. So they secretly abort fetuses of females, and try again. 16. Some fear that the prosecutions could be expanded so that a woman who aborted a fetus for a medical reason could be charged in the death of the child. 17. That technique would abort some fetuses so others would have a better chance of living. 18. The McCaugheys were morally opposed to aborting any fetuses. 19. The safest way to abort a fetus in the later stages of pregnancy is to open the cervix and remove the amniotic fluid, placenta and fetus. 20. The technique, medically known as dilation and evacuation, involves aborting a fetus that has been pulled, feet first, into the birth canal. |