11.   Family planning and human rights groups distributed a letter to members of Congress after the vote urging rejection of the whole foreign aid bill because of the abortion language.

12.   Whether he can carry it through the next week without a major challenge hinges in part on the outcome of the fight over abortion language in the Republican platform.

13.   If the abortion language is not restored, a showdown would loom when House and senate staffs meet later this year to reconcile the two texts.

14.   Clinton has also sought more liberal abortion language in a UN plan for slowing world population growth.