21.   The governor also took issue with the total abortion ban being proposed for the state GOP platform.

22.   The new GOP strategy has been to pursue legislation that can attract centrist support, proposals such as the partial-birth abortion ban and consent requirements for minors.

23.   The language of the Nebraska and Iowa laws was nearly identical to definitions used in the federal partial-birth abortion ban proposed in Congress.

24.   The pledge bound the signer to support an abortion ban in the platform and the selection of an abortion opponent for vice president.

25.   The Senate on Friday failed to overturn a presidential veto of the partial-birth abortion ban.

26.   Those clinics, then, who refuse to follow the abortion ban and lose their funding will be less effective in offering all services, even the noncontroversial ones.

27.   Clinton favors Medicaid funding and is opposed to a partial-birth abortion ban.

28.   Later that year, the voters gave parliamentary power back to the former communists, who made repeal of the abortion ban a priority.

29.   The bishops, who wanted an abortion ban and considered the charter to be too liberal, came under fire from the ruling leftists supporting it.

30.   The Senate passed a partial-birth abortion ban last year and the House passed a similar version two months ago.