It won't be to determine whether partial-birth abortion is ever necessary.

It will be to determine whether each partial-birth abortion was necessary.

First, he used the painful issue of partial-birth abortion to suggest that the President was not only wrong, but bad.

"I still very much believe that states have the right to restrict partial-birth abortion," she said.

Defense of the medical procedure that critics call partial-birth abortion, he said, "was not right with the American people."

In that case, it might fit the law's description of a partial-birth abortion.

In 2003 he voted against a bill that would have banned all partial-birth abortions.

The bill would allow the procedure, which critics call partial-birth abortion, only if a woman's life were in danger.

For example, ending the the dreadful practice of partial-birth abortions.

Over the years, an important question has remained unanswered: how many partial-birth abortions are actually done?