Q. Are there many second- and third-trimester abortions performed in Connecticut?

Could we live, though, with a few more restrictions on second-trimester abortions and a ban on third-trimester abortions?

The doctors who do third-trimester abortions take another view.

Illegally obtaining a third-trimester abortion would bring a lesser penalty of two years in prison.

A minority of these third-trimester abortions use the procedure that has stirred Congress's ire.

Next week, Congress is expected to consider overriding President Clinton's veto of a bill that would ban a type of third-trimester abortion.

As anti-abortionists make clear, the details of third-trimester abortion are gruesome.

Start labor in third-trimester abortions.

The "partial-birth ban," aimed at a particular type of second- and third-trimester abortion, was struck down by lower federal courts, but is now on appeal.

He also said that local medical boards should have the power to make decisions on third-trimester abortions.