21.   As examples, they said, Hmong families had to allow autopsies on dead relatives against their beliefs and Maryland hospitals lost accreditation for refusing to perform abortions.

22.   At the same time, the court upheld a Montana statute that permits only licensed physicians to perform abortions.

23.   Back at the clinic, Dr. Savita Mittal denied that she performed abortions or knew Kaur.

24.   Backers of legislation requiring doctors to notify a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a minor tend to pitch it as a simple bill about parental rights.

25.   Biskind also is being investigated in connection with the April case of a woman who bled to death after he performed her abortion.

26.   A doctor who performs abortions here has been picketed while attending church on Sunday.

27.   A hospital that previously performed abortions promised Wednesday to ban the practice, in response to objections from the Catholic hospital it merged with three years ago.

28.   A House Democrat asked the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday to revoke the tax-exempt status of an Alabama organization that has advocated killing doctors who perform abortions.

29.   A new report shows that the number of doctors willing to perform abortions has dropped drastically in Maine during the past decade.

30.   A second award, for feature writing, went to Tom Junod for his portrait of Dr. John Bayard Britton, a doctor who performed abortions in the South.