1.   Along with the fact that the anaesthetic given to the mother kills the fetus before the brain is removed.

2.   At issue is whether the Legislature should permit a physician to kill a fetus while only a small portion of the child remains in the birth canal.

3.   But Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston said the procedure kills a fetus at a time when it could easily go on to live.

4.   But many doctors kill the fetus before the contents are removed.

5.   First, the woman receives an injection of the drug, which interferes with cell division and kills the fetus.

6.   He can kill the fetus and drain the skull in the womb, then induce the woman into labor so she delivers a stillborn baby.

7.   Massachusetts has no statutory law making it a crime to harm or kill a fetus.

8.   More recently, the same court upheld murder charges against a man who stabbed his pregnant wife and in the process killed the fetus in her womb.

9.   One of the facts of abortion, he said, is that women enter abortion clinics to kill their fetuses.

10.   One brother, Bobby, did prison time after his attempted robbery resulted in him shooting a pregnant woman, killing the fetus.