"I expect many, many attempts by anti-abortion legislators to create new restrictions, and a great deal more litigation."

She and others said that they could not anticipate what kind of restrictions anti-abortion legislators might propose, but that they felt sure new legislative models would be introduced.

Self-proclaimed anti-abortion legislators voted overwhelmingly to support the bill.

In supporting the bill, anti-abortion legislators and lobbyists chose to accept rather than fight this reality.

Both sides are gearing up for a fight expected when anti-abortion legislators seek further restrictions, either at a special session in the fall or during the regular session starting in January 1990.

The message has clearly reached many anti-abortion legislators.

In New Hampshire's legislature, even some anti-abortion legislators support the resolution, saying the issue is freedom of choice in medical treatment.

But nudged he compares the coterie of leading anti-abortion legislators to a basketball team.

And in Minnesota, anti-abortion legislators decided that the climate was not right for introducing restrictive measures at a special legislative session.

He predicted anti-abortion legislators "are going to go as absolutely as far as they can."