The process of leaving homes behind in search of a safe place is called evacuation.

Since the legislation's language does not specify medical terms, there is concern, particularly among supporters of abortion rights, that the measure would extend to what doctors call "dilation and evacuation," a more frequently used method from the 12th week of pregnancy.

In Mrs. Klein's case, doctors planned a procedure called dilation and evacuation.

Medically, the abortion procedure at issue is called intact dilation and evacuation, because the feet of the fetus are extracted first and the skull is broken before being suctioned through the birth canal.

He had talked about moving, but after his passing her late mother had simply refused to countenance what she had called 'evacuation'.

"We call it mandatory evacuation, but we're not forcing anyone to leave," said Bobby Kitchens, an information officer for the Forest Service.

BUT Mrs. Kelly stops short of calling evacuation itself infeasible.

Proposed Federal and state legislation to criminalize mid-trimester abortions - called dilation and evacuation by doctors and partial-birth abortions by those who want to ban them - has raised passions locally as well as nationally.

In the abortion procedure, which doctors call intact dilation and evacuation, a fetus is partially delivered and its brain is vacuumed out so the skull can be collapsed and the head can be delivered.

When executing military operations with their Iraqi or Afghan partners, transition teams call for U.S. close air support, indirect fire, and medical evacuation, whenever necessary.