61. The University of Washington teaches abortion procedures in an optional course for medical students. 62. They said the decisions about late-term or any other kinds of abortion procedures should be left to women and their physicians. 63. They also hailed the defeats of ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington state that would have banned certain late-term abortion procedures. 64. This is the phrase invented by pro-life groups to stigmatize all abortion procedures, not only in late term but those commonly used before fetal viability. 65. This year lawmakers have passed bills to ban a controversial late-term abortion procedure and prohibit abortions for military women at overseas hospitals. 66. This legislation has more symbolic than practical impact but, if passed, would represent the first absolute ban on a specific abortion procedure. 67. Whitman strongly defends her decision to veto state legislation that would have banned certain late-term abortion procedures. 68. Police arrested Sahadeo on Tuesday and charged him with raping a patient who had come to his city clinic for an abortion procedure. 69. Pataki has said he would sign legislation banning the abortion procedure if it reaches his desk. 70. A federal judge on Thursday blocked the state from enforcing a ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure. |