It was this spell that encouraged an early amendment to the laws: the introduction of a third stump.
Those early amendment drafts had many critics, both Democratic and Republican, and many of their criticisms were valid.
But just last month the policy chief of the conservative governing Liberal Democratic Party ruled out an early amendment to the law.
The House bill's author, Representative Jodie Laubenberg, a Republican from Parker, dangled a pair of baby shoes before her as she spoke on Tuesday; Representative Senfronia Thompson, who offered an early amendment to the bill, was flanked by colleagues holding wire hangers, representing the brutal abortion methods they said would return if legitimate clinics were run out of business.
This is particularly likely during early amendment, when they were relatively more abundant.
However, in an early amendment, the low dose was reduced to 825 mg/m as a large proportion of patients discontinuing treatment early due to adverse events were observed with 950 mg/m in another study that was running in parallel.
After the family battle erupted, Mrs. Astor's former court-appointed lawyer, Susan I. Robbins, saw that the signature on the 2004 amendment was thicker and firmer than the ones on the two earlier amendments.
With large numbers of Tory MPs opposed to gay marriage, Mr Cameron had to rely on the votes of Labour and Lib Dem MPs to defeat a series of earlier amendments tabled by Tory opponents.
The controversial vote on abortion, and the earlier amendments that would have made having a father or "father figure" a condition for IVF treatment, were the last in a series of thorny issues on which MPs have been called to vote this week, proposed as amendments to the human fertilisation and embryology bill.
After several earlier amendments to the original laws in 2002 and 2005, the NYS Legislature instituted the most significant changes to date in April 2009, when mandatory prison sentences for some drug offenses were eliminated and minimum sentence lengths were reduced for others.
