It's time for President Bush to end his policies that encourage abortions.

She asserted that some of the clinics encouraged abortions, a charge they denied.

But anti-abortion groups have argued that medical uses of the tissue might encourage abortions.

Such bans have been imposed in the last decade, over the objections of many scientists, on the ground that the research could encourage abortion.

In the existing text, no support is to be given under this regulation to incentives to encourage sterilisation or abortion.

He said the bill would encourage abortions, though its terms forbade abortions to provide research material.

They argued that the welfare bill, in its effort to reduce out-of-wedlock births, would encourage abortions.

The Administration has continued the ban, begun in 1988, out of concern that the use of such tissue would encourage abortions.

I believe the best public policy is to encourage fewer abortions through strong adoption laws and by sending a clear abstinence message to our children.

But Mr. Bush said lifting the ban would encourage abortion.