The issue of violence and civil disobedience in the service of stopping abortions has been touchy for years.

Smith has worked to stop abortions in military hospitals .

At the same time, abortion opponents scoffed at the notion that the two Democratic proposals would do anything to stop abortions.

In 2006 Morgentaler had to stop performing abortions after undergoing a heart bypass surgery.

The Lambs are trying to stop abortions with nonviolent but confrontational protests that usually end in arrests and jail sentences.

Mr. Allen has recently drawn more notice because of his anti-abortion advertisement, which he said he intended to "advance public understanding" for the need to stop abortions.

The group's two-week campaign to stop abortions at four Buffalo-area clinics is to end today.

Hospitals in those cities stopped performing abortions when they affiliated with a Catholic institution.

She delivers the right pronouncements ("The law doesn't stop abortions; it just makes them dangerous.")

And she was there today, brown rosary beads in her hands, a small gold cross on a chain around her neck, quietly praying to stop abortions.