"He was not only for a woman's right to choose pregnancy termination," Dr. Frigoletto said.

Firstly, in the attitudinal survey, women with a past history of infertility, pregnancy termination, and repeated miscarriages reported having a more positive attitude towards preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

Also, area veterinarians are again reporting sudden pregnancy terminations by mares that are 45 to 70 days into gestation.

"In our own hospital, the official lower limit of viability, when we will not do pregnancy terminations, is 23 weeks," he said.

Abortion in Israel is legal under certain circumstances, subject to the approval of a committee for pregnancy termination.

The Torah contains no direct references to pregnancy termination, only to miscarriage following violent altercation.

Family planning: Contraception, sterilization, and pregnancy termination.

It referred to her earlier pregnancy termination as a reason for her wanting to go away - yet Mark would have known nothing about it, said the prosecution.