41.   Across town, meanwhile, a national coalition of radical anti-abortion activists pickets the home of a doctor who performs abortions.

42.   After his nomination, Foster, an obstetrician and gynecologist from Tennessee, came under immediate attack from anti-abortion groups after he acknowledged that he had performed abortions.

43.   After all, a hospital staffed to deliver babies also must perform abortions.

44.   After that shooting, two other Canadian doctors who perform abortions were shot and wounded.

45.   All physicians in Texas must be licensed, and unlike in some other states, they are the only ones allowed to perform abortions.

46.   All doctors training in obstetrics must be offered instruction in how to perform abortions under a new rule adopted Tuesday by a national council on medical specialty training.

47.   Also, practicing doctors who have performed abortions have often stopped for a range of reasons, from fear for their safety to simple retirement.

48.   But at an age when some of their colleagues are thinking of retirement these doctors soldier on, performing abortions.

49.   But Carhart also happens to perform abortions.

50.   But after Foster acknowledged that he had performed abortions he became the target of a withering attack from anti-abortion groups and conservative politicians.