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...Governor John Love signed the bill in front of TV cameras, Colorado last week became the first state to legalize abortion on three principal medical grounds, with appropriate legal safeguards. Until Love's action, most abortions had been illegal in all 50 states. Although 45 states permitted "therapeutic abortion" to save a woman's life, that provision covered only 10,000 legal abortions a year. The total of illegal abortions in the U.S. is estimated at 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 a year, with a high rate of resulting infections and hundreds of deaths...
Follow the Lead. Based on a model code drafted by the American Law Institute, the Colorado statute authorizes abortion whenever a pregnancy 1) results from rape or incest, 2) threatens grave damage to the woman's physical or mental health, or 3) is likely to result in the birth of a child with a severe mental or physical defect. Even then, an abortion must be performed in a licensed hospital, and only after a panel of three doctors have unanimously approved the operation...
Similar legislation has died or been pigeonholed in a dozen states this year as a result of church opposition, mainly from Roman Catholics. Colorado's bill was carefully steered through the lower house by Denver Representative Richard D. Lamm, who kept the debate as unemotional as possible, relying on research prepared by the American Lutheran Church. Lamm gave Catholic opponents a quick history lesson...
...could have buried the bill by a pocket veto. After weighing thousands of pro and con letters, Love declared that the bill tightened as well as liberalized the law, by limiting abortions to licensed, accredited hospitals and requiring approval by a medical panel. As for widely voiced fears that Colorado might become an "abortion mecca," Love was confident that physicians and hospitals would not risk their reputations and accreditations by lightly approving abortions for transients...
...abortion equivalent to murder, is fighting hard to kill these measures. In Chicago last week, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops authorized a new "educational campaign" against the proposed laws, with a first-year budget of $50,000. In New York, an abortion bill was defeated last month. In Colorado, where Catholic influence is weaker, such a law was passed...