1.   The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.

2.   He performs hundreds of late abortions every year and has doubts about the safety of the intact dilation and extraction method.

3.   If signed into law, the bill would make it a crime to perform the abortion procedure known as intact dilation and evacuation.

4.   In the procedure, called intact dilation and extraction, all but the head of a fetus is delivered through the vagina.

5.   Not all such late-term abortions are performed through intact dilation and evacuation.

6.   Proponents of the ban say that doctors who perform intact dilation and extraction do so to save time.

7.   Public opinion polls last year showed that three-fourths of Americans favored banning the procedure, whose technical name is intact dilation and extraction.

8.   The medical term is intact dilation and evacuation.

9.   The precise number of such abortions, known technically as intact dilation and evacuation, is unknown.