81.   Morales performed the procedure on a Friday last December.

82.   No one tracks the number of doctors performing procedures not covered by insurance or how that number has changed, but there are many indications that it is growing.

83.   No national authority regulates how medical procedures are performed, so there is no single standard to which centers practicing pallidotomy are held.

84.   Nobody wants a bleary-eyed beginning doctor, numb after extraordinarily long hours without rest, to be making critical medical decisions or performing surgical procedures.

85.   Often but not always, doctors say, the fetus is dead before the procedure is performed.

86.   Optometrists are already performing this procedure in Idaho.

87.   Others say it applies only to the person who performs the procedure.

88.   Physicians who perform the procedure could face fines and prison.

89.   Physicians might perform surgical procedures on prisoners to reduce aggression or violent tendencies.

90.   Prosecutors did not name the person who performed the procedure.