Word: abor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miscellaneous. While a 1973 decision allowing abortions still stands, many poor women will be unable to afford them, now that the court has upheld a federal law cutting off Medicaid funding of abor tions except in very limited situations (Harris vs. McRae). That decision followed by two weeks one that allowed the patenting of new manufactured forms of life, which should spawn even more laboratory activity in a field whose boundaries can only be imagined (Diamond vs. Chakrabarty). A federal regulation tightening the limits on how much benzene vapor can be in the air in work places was challenged...
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