going to be making the decisi decisions, her family and herself? or is that going to be the leader of the state or the governors or a religious leader? the question is who are the patients. in late-term abortion, we re talking about a healthy, viable stree fetus that can live outside the womb. it s a callus thing to say that child is not a patient as well as the woman. the unborn child does feel pain at that point. when they re performed, the child is given anesthesia before it s aborted. we have seen this come up in washington during confirmation battles, but is this an issue where washington is a bystander and do you see increasing volume about a state by state battle for abortion rights? sure, what the right wing s strategy has been in the past about abortion has been to test drive the antiabortion measured.