CBS Evening News - 2003-10-21

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[0:02] abortion rights take a historic hit from

[0:04] Congress what do women face and will the

[0:08] new restrictions hold up in court as

[0:11] civilian deaths mount in Iraq some

[0:14] critics say one Elite American combat

[0:16] unit is too willing to shoot we'll have

[0:19] a CBS News independent investigation

[0:22] washing away in Washington state record

[0:25] Reigns threaten floods along 11 Western

[0:28] rivers and surviving the plunge he went

[0:32] over Niagara Falls and lived to tell

[0:34] about it to a

[0:41] judge this is the CBS Evening News with

[0:45] Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:48] headquarters in New York good evening it

[0:50] is one of the biggest developments in

[0:52] the battle over abortion rights since

[0:54] the Supreme Court's Landmark ruling

[0:56] supporting a woman's right to choose 30

[0:58] years ago Congress tonight gave final

[1:01] approval to legislation making it a

[1:03] crime for doctors to perform certain

[1:06] types of late term abortions legislation

[1:09] President Bush says he will sign into

[1:11] law cbs's Elizabeth kardan looks tonight

[1:14] beyond the politics and rhetoric to the

[1:17] medical impact this law could

[1:20] have and what the Senate's only

[1:23] physician set the tone it's an egregious

[1:26] uh

[1:27] outlandish

[1:28] ghoulish uh the procedure that is but

[1:31] many other doctors will disagree with

[1:33] the abortion bill passed by Congress

[1:35] specifically the legislation reads late

[1:37] term abortion is never medically

[1:40] necessary to preserve the health of the

[1:42] mother major medical groups including

[1:44] the American Medical Association do not

[1:46] support the procedure generally

[1:48] performed between the 18th and 24th

[1:50] weeks of a pregnancy the AMA eve

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