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.
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.
In a sense the professors and students are continuing the tradition of the longtime proponent of abortion rights, the late Rev.
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.
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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.
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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 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.
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