31.   Both sides of the abortion issue are trying to flex their muscles.

32.   A limited truce this time similarly was the final battlefield order from Pat Buchanan to his disappointed brigade on the opposite side of the abortion issue.

33.   Abortion rights activists say their opponents have resorted to manipulating science because the courts and Congress have been relatively inactive on the abortion issue of late.

34.   Activists and politicians on both sides of the abortion issue condemned the bombings.

35.   Activists on both sides of the abortion issue call the line fine, even blurry.

36.   After years of carefully avoiding the abortion issue, conservatives in the Arizona Legislature have launched a full-scale assault on the procedure.

37.   Bush is under pressure regarding the abortion issue.

38.   But although he played down the abortion issue by skipping it, when pressed he said he would take steps like this one against the practice.

39.   Buchanan also rejects New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman because of her pro-choice stand on the abortion issue.

40.   Budoff said the court may not have made the decision based on the abortion issue, but on procedural issues alone.