Article: MEDICAL ADVANCES REFOCUS THE DEBATE

One in a series of occasional articles on

abortion.

It happens occasionally today that a doctor in one room is destroying a 21-week-old fetus growing inside a teen-ager who wants nothing more than to be rid of her pregnancy while a doctor in the next room is working feverishly to save the life of a 24-week-old fetus delivered prematurely by a woman who wants nothing more than to have her tiny, translucent baby survive.

The two procedures, aimed at fetuses precariously close in development, represent widely hailed technical advances of the past decade that have altered the abortion debate.

They are what Justice Sandra Day O'Connor called the "collision course" of Roe vs. ...

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