31.   After weeks of prodding from House leaders, abortion foes yesterday accepted compromise language which should allow the bill to pass Congress.

32.   All sides agree that abortion foes have the votes to succeed.

33.   But abortion foes opposed the bill because of a provision that might allow privately funded abortions in overseas military hospitals.

34.   But in the end, it was a rout, with the staunchest abortion foe, Rep. Henry J. Hyde, victorious.

35.   But Lazio opposes what abortion foes call partial-birth abortions.

36.   But opponents of the work, whose ranks loosely mirror those of abortion foes, claim that science is outpacing ethics.

37.   But religious conservatives and abortion foes immediately denounced the research.

38.   By extremists, he said he meant abortion foes who break the law to prevent a woman from exercising her constitutional right to an abortion.

39.   By picking Cheney, an abortion foe, Bush can keep the GOP base intact.

40.   California abortion foes were ecstatic that after eight years in the White House wilderness, they now find a friend in Washington.