1.   Clinton would support language banning the abortion technique as an elective procedure, another White House aide said.

2.   A House committee on Tuesday passed a ban on a controversial late-term abortion technique.

3.   Even if more doctors are taught abortion techniques, they say, social and political pressures will keep the vast majority of them from ever performing the procedure.

4.   Ms. Harrison said that in drafting the legislation, she and others had rejected the idea of specifying the gestational age or abortion technique it would cover.

5.   President Bill Clinton twice vetoed bills to ban the procedure, and there is no federal statute dealing with abortion techniques.

6.   President Bill Clinton twice vetoed bills to ban the procedure, and no federal statute deals with abortion techniques.

7.   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.

8.   The AMA recently completed a study of late-term abortion techniques.

9.   This process is generally used to diagnose problems, including cancer, rather than as an abortion technique.

10.   It will offer training in abortion techniques and will show an exhibition on sex education.