She is most notable for instigating a legal challenge to the late abortion of a 28-week-old fetus in 2001.

Most late abortions occur between 20 and 24 weeks.

But no formal scientific studies have been done, partly because of the secrecy surrounding late abortion.

It can also be used to prosecute late abortions.

Others, including even some who support abortion rights, find what they do abhorrent and equate late abortions with murder.

The doctors who do late abortions say that the choices are not easy and that they themselves struggle with decisions about whose request to grant.

"Twenty years ago, there were just two or three doctors in the country doing late abortions."

These late abortions will now become the focus.

At the same time she'd had 'this disastrous affair' with a married man that led to her pregnancy and a late abortion.

Only a small percentage of these late abortions employ the outlawed method.