Current activities in Congress indicate that another duel with President Clinton over the procedure known as partial birth abortion is looming.

What is it all about? What are the legislative efforts to ban it? What have the U.S. Bishops done?

Current discussions on abortion, human embryo research (including cloning, stem cell research, and the formation of mixed-species chimeras), and the use of abortifacients involve specific claims as to when the life of every human being begins.