1.   Antiabortion lawmakers, however, said many women choose to abort late in the pregnancy for nonmedical reasons.

2.   Democrats and abortion-rights proponents generally supported the former, while Republicans and antiabortion lawmakers generally favored the latter.

3.   For Daschle, the promise of compromise legislation is an effort to combat antiabortion lawmakers who have promised to pursue the issue during the next session of Congress.

4.   For the most part, antiabortion lawmakers have pushed their cause this year by taking aim at spending bills.

5.   The floor action is a way of paying back antiabortion lawmakers for setting aside their social agenda earlier this year in order to move tax and budget bills.