Some opponents have been appeased by an anti-abortion amendment sponsored by Senator John Danforth of Missouri that could allow discrimination against females who've had abortions.

Then a few conservative members killed the funding bill by attaching an unacceptable anti-abortion amendment.

The anti-abortion amendment was easily approved by a vote of 128 to 34.

He was a driving force behind the Republicans' decision to put a plank in their 1976 party platform calling for an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution.

And Ms. Albright also talked one-on-one by telephone with the conservative legislators who backed the anti-abortion amendment to the spending bill.

The platform reiterated the bishops' advocacy of an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution and changes in state laws.

Another skirmish is the campaign in Pennsylvania against State Representative Steve Freind for introducing an anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution.

The vote on the anti-abortion amendment was 240 to 181, with 52 Democrats joining 188 Republicans to pass it.

In fact, the anti-abortion amendment has been politically stalled for years.