"If that's your premise, then it's difficult to justify using abortion as a means of prevention of disability."

To what extent he uses abortion as a litmus test will reveal much about him and his party.

Debbie had used abortion as a form of birth control and it seemed that now she might be paying the price.

Black women use abortion at twice the rate of white women.

She does not think of herself as "one of those people" who use abortion as birth control.

The idea, she said, is to to discourage women from using abortion as a routine birth control method, something that was common in all Communist nations.

He has said that he would not use abortion as a litmus test in appointing judges.

However, when economic levels are factored in, black women actually use abortion at a greater rate.

It has been implied that this regulation could leave the door open to use abortion as a means of contraception or even birth control.

Let me emphasise that nobody wants to use abortion as a means of family planning.