A bill approved last week in the House would impose criminal penalties on doctors who practice the late-term method of partially extracting a fetus feet first, collapsing the skull in the birth canal and suctioning out the brain.

With these, when the firearm was opened, extractors would partially extract the cartridges from the two chambers, and ejectors would "kick" the cartridges free, completely out of the firearm.

The procedure involves partially extracting a fetus, feet first, and collapsing the skull while it is still in the uterus by suctioning out the brain.

In this operation, used in fewer than 1 percent of legal abortions, a physician partially extracts the fetus late in the pregnancy, then collapses the skull and suctions out the brain before completing the abortion.

Nor did the delicacy of your description, "partially extracting the fetus into the birth canal and collapsing the skull in order to let it be extracted" do justice to the butchery involved.

Republicans are seeking to override President Clinton's veto of a bill that would outlaw the type of abortion that involves partially extracting a fetus and collapsing the skull.

At issue is a procedure, generally used in the second or third trimester of pregnancy, that involves partially extracting an intact fetus from a woman's uterus and then killing it by emptying the brain from the skull.

But some doctors, those who would be affected by the House bill, use a procedure that involves partially extracting the fetus into the birth canal and collapsing the skull in order to let it be extracted.

It involves partially extracting a fetus, feet first, and collapsing the skull in the birth canal by suctioning out the brain.

Dr. Satcher, a former president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, said he did not support the late-term abortion procedure in which a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the womb.