1.   As commissioner she will make important day-to-day decisions, many of them beyond public scrutiny, that affect the availability of abortion services.

2.   Because abortion services have become concentrated in a few large facilities, for millions of American women obtaining an abortion has often meant a long trek.

3.   Abortion services are heavily concentrated in urban areas.

4.   About two-thirds of private health plans cover abortion services.

5.   But since some Planned Parenthood clinics receive Title X money, and also provide abortion counseling, critics complain that the federal funds free other money for abortion services.

6.   But Rice found that Haskell also has standing on behalf of patients who are scheduled to obtain his abortion services this week.

7.   By law, Title X money cannot be used for abortion services.

8.   Critics said that, at the least, state family planning money allowed Planned Parenthood to spend more money on abortion services.

9.   In keeping with that mission, Planned Parenthood has expanded its abortion services over the past decade, Feldt said.

10.   In marginalizing abortion services, the militant arm of the anti-abortion movement has marginalized the medical needs of hundreds of thousands of American women.