The bull's eye is coming up with something that captures the public imagination as powerfully as "partial birth" did.
Not only did abortion opponents portray "partial birth" as a particularly gruesome procedure, they changed the public focus from the woman to the baby.
In the 1990s, pro-lifers have used fetal diagrams to illustrate the horror of "partial birth" abortions.
A ban on partial birth is the first step.
So was labeling a medical procedure partial birth abortion.
With the banning of so-called partial birth abortion, she will learn that the law now values her fetus over her own life.
The bill calls this procedure a "partial birth," a term that experts reject as a misnomer.
What partial birth did was give humanity to the choice.
Senator Moynihan and I both take the position that partial birth is wrong, it's infanticide.
Not far behind, perhaps, will be the 2003 "partial birth" law.