For Mr. Quayle, the abortion controversy meant yet another suspension of political momentum.

The special problems of minors made these cases even more difficult than most abortion controversies.

That question raises the issue, so prominent in the abortion controversy, of when life begins.

Some legal experts said abortion controversies had kept the courts from re-examining the rights of unborn babies in malpractice cases.

But both sides in the abortion controversy worry that approving Maastricht might change the law in a way they oppose.

But it is the pre-Roe abortion controversy that the present-day constitutional debate over a "right to die" most closely resembles.

Another example occurs within the abortion controversy.

"If you were to track the whole abortion controversy, you'd find that in 1984 it almost went away," he said.

This misinformation supported anti-abortionists in their position that rape should not be part of the abortion controversy.

The abortion controversy will endure because it touches deep human feelings and affects many lives, sometimes in tragic ways.