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  • Mr. Santorum, 53 years old, served two terms in the U.S. Senate, taking the lead on efforts to ban so-called partial-birth abortion and giving faith-based organizations more assistance under the 1996 welfare overhaul.

    Santorum Jumps In, Blasts Obama Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • Mr. Santorum, 53 years old, served two terms in the U.S. Senate, taking the lead on efforts to ban so-called partial-birth abortion and giving faith-based organizations more assistance under the 1996 welfare overhaul.

    Santorum Jumps In, Blasts Obama Jonathan Weisman 2011

  • Planned Parenthood and that he campaigned for Republicans who supported so-called "partial-birth" abortion - though her claim about "partial-birth" abortion could have used context.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • He later produced another film, "Eclipse of Reason," about a late-term procedure that critics call partial-birth abortion.

    NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM GRIMES 2011

  • "He made an affirmative statement that he would not only support, but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion," Mrs. Bachmann said of Mr. Gingrich.

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 2011

  • Further, he said, "the evidence supports Congress 'finding that partial-birth abortion is never necessary to preserve the health of the woman."

    Who Obama Picks To Keep Doing Bush's Work For Him 2009

  • In his vigorous dissent in the Supreme Court's 2000 ruling throwing out a Nebraska law prohibiting a certain partial-birth abortion procedure, he professed himself shocked, shocked that the justices did not really mean what they had told the states about their right to regulate abortion just a few years earlier in the Planned Parenthood v.

    ObamaCare and the Two Kennedys William McGurn 2011

  • Well, Jim Kolbe was 1 of only 6 Republicans in Congress to vote against the ban on partial-birth abortion.

    Matthew Berry to challenge Jim Moran (D, VA-08). - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • He once spoke on the Senate floor with pictures of fetuses in various stages of delivery, during a debate on an abortion procedure that critics call "partial-birth" abortion.

    Ex-senator ties Obama's race to abortion rights 2011

  • Further, he said, "the evidence supports Congress 'finding that partial-birth abortion is never necessary to preserve the health of the woman."

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

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