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WITH THE 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade approaching and Republicans in control in Washington, the 108th Congress will likely take up the partial-birth abortion ban passed by the House last July but buried by the Democratic Senate.

“It will be an issue. It will be taken up,” says Douglas Johnson, top lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee. “I expect to see the Senate deal with it in the new year.”