Anti-abortion bill moves closer to Senate

Published September 30, 2006 4:00am ET



The Senate closed a furious final week before the November election recess Friday with a debate over an anti-abortion bill that would make it a crime to bring girls across state lines to duck parental-notification laws.

Anti-abortion senators, most of them Republicans, believed they were close to ending a filibuster on the Child Custody Protection Act.

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