The new ad features Gianna Jessen, who survived the late-term abortion procedure in 1977.
Last week, the Senate turned back two less-restrictive late-term abortion bans, setting the stage for today's decisive vote.
In a late-term abortion, the fetus is partially delivered, then its skull is collapsed so it can be removed.
President Bill Clinton vetoed a late-term abortion ban last year, but Republicans said today they want him to reconsider.
Ms. Rice told CBS's "60 Minutes" in 2008 she opposes late-term abortion and supports parental notification for minors seeking abortion.
Its narrative suggests, however, that "legitimate" abortionists routinely availed themselves of Gosnell's services to help their patients evade legal and ethical limits on late-term abortion.
And the fact that very premature babies now have a far better chance of living albeit usually with severe disabilities has also made late-term abortion a harder sell than it was.
In New York, Mr. Cuomo said he aims to incorporate protections for abortion late in pregnancy into state law in case the U.S. Supreme Court ever reconsiders the Roe decision.
"We haven't seen the governor's proposal yet, but we do know that it's either an extreme measure to expand late-term abortion or an unnecessary and purely political maneuver, " said the spokeswoman, Kelly Cummings.
Although Ms. Feng and Mr. Deng, who already have a 5-year-old daughter, didn't qualify to have a second child, it is illegal to force a woman to have a late-term abortion, China's state-run Xinhua news agency noted.
"We haven't seen the governor's proposal yet, but we do know that it's either an extreme measure to expand late-term abortion or an unnecessary and purely political maneuver, " said Kelly Cummings, spokeswoman for the Senate Republicans who share control of the chamber and can block a bill from a floor vote.
Police raided an abortion clinic late Saturday in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Bonsucesso following tips that the clinic was also selling drugs.
Indeed, most federal funding has been banned for abortion for more than three decades under the Hyde amendment, named for the late Illinois House member and anti-abortion icon Henry Hyde.
BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Next week, John Salvi will go on trial in Boston, accused of killing two women and injuring several others at two abortion clinics in late 1994.
States have been allowed to restrict abortion access at late stages of pregnancy, but only if they make exceptions for protecting the mother's health and the net result has been one of the most liberal abortion policies in the world.
According to the grand jury, Gosnell's method of "abortion" in these late-term cases was infanticide, plain and simple.
In a sense the professors and students are continuing the tradition of the longtime proponent of abortion rights, the late Rev.
He toes the most liberal line on late-term and partial-birth abortion.
Live Action, an antiabortion-advocacy group, has released several videos of covertly filmed conversations between abortion providers and pregnant women claiming to be seeking abortions late in their pregnancy.
WSJ: Philadelphia Abortion Doctor Gosnell Convicted of Murder
Prosecutors say Dr Gosnell profited greatly from employing low-paid, unlicensed staff, while performing as many as 1, 000 abortions a year, charging from several hundred dollars for an early abortion to several thousand for a three-day long, late-term procedure.
BBC: Philadelphia abortion doctor tried on 'baby murder' case
Last week he told an anti-abortion rally in Washington that he would sign a bill banning late-term abortions, and has hinted that if a Supreme Court vacancy arises, he will appoint a Conservative judge who may vote to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade case which legalised abortion in the United States.
He became a leader on public-housing reform, voted for gay and lesbian domestic-partner health benefits and executed a complicated straddle on abortion--nominally pro-choice but against federal funding and late-term abortions.
For instance, the Republicans have considerable support when it comes to limiting late-term abortions and getting teenagers to notify their parents, but most Americans believe abortion should not be illegal.
The procedure -- called "partial birth abortion" by its critics -- is typically performed in the middle-to-late second trimester.
The late switch from Ms Rousseff to Ms Silva may have been caused partly by a row about Brazil's abortion laws.
Over half of the under 18s that get pregnant end up having an abortion, meaning the number of new teenage mothers has actually fallen by nearly a quarter since the late 1990s.
The isolation, worry and stress of an unplanned pregnancy can never be ignored or underestimated, but there are still those of us for whom abortion is not just an unpleasant, distasteful solution to a problem, but the deliberate, and in late abortions, cruel, ending of a life, and therefore morally and philosophically wrong.
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