51.   Outside the convention arena, abortion rights advocates and opponents are plotting competing demonstrations.

52.   Rather than dismiss those women, abortion rights advocates learned to embrace and recast them as exemplars of choice.

53.   Similarly, no one from Operation Rescue is involved in the negotiations to meet with abortion rights advocates, according to Citizens for Life officials.

54.   So far, her reception among American abortion rights advocates has been warm but cautious.

55.   Still, abortion rights advocates said they had achieved a landmark decision in their quest to stifle the activities of militant anti-abortion groups.

56.   That case persuaded a number of abortion rights advocates to take their chances in state courts.

57.   That statement however did not placate the abortion rights advocates.

58.   That troubled some abortion rights advocates like Eleanor Smeal, the president of the Feminist Majority Foundation.

59.   Television ads from abortion rights advocates, environmentalists and the People for the American Way are making the same point in more or less direct terms.

60.   The next step for abortion rights advocates may be the foreign operations appropriation bill, which is likely to be before the House in the late summer or fall.