1.   Abortion-rights supporters argue that the procedure is uncommon and used only when a fetus has severe abnormalities or the woman has serious health problems.

2.   Proponents of abortion rights countered with three tearful women who had undergone the abortion technique in question within the last year to abort fetuses with severe abnormalities.

3.   She is now also being accused of the deaths of three other babies, which had at first gone unremarked because they were born with severe abnormalities.

4.   Since childhood I have suffered from a severe overpacking abnormality.

5.   Some say the law bans virtually all late-term abortions, with no exceptions for severe fetal abnormalities.

6.   Some said the law banned virtually all late-term abortions, with no exceptions for severe fetal abnormalities.

7.   Such abortions are sought primarily by women who have discovered that their fetuses have severe abnormalities or that they themselves have serious medical problems, or by teen-agers.

8.   The severe abnormalities ranged from heart defects and a missing kidney to the development of a brain outside the skull.

9.   The law also requires abortion of fetuses found to be carrying hereditary diseases or suffering from severe abnormalities.

10.   Six-months pregnant Jacqueline James had the abortion after ultrasound scan diagnoses revealed that the child had severe physical abnormalities, the Daily Mail reported.