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With gaudy antiabortion posters set up in the normally staid Senate chamber, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and his conservative allies pressed for a constitutional amendment that would overturn the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe vs. Wade) that guarantees women a constitutional right to abortion. "The country is on a slippery slope to infanticide," warned Senator Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. "Even dogs have more protection than the unborn," said Hatch. But after two days of speeches in a largely empty Senate chamber, the ten-word Hatch amendment fell 18 votes short of the required two-thirds majority last...
...Legal Defense Fund. President Reagan, whose Administration had argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the abortion restrictions, expressed his "profound disappointment." The President supports a pro-life bill sponsored by North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and a constitutional amendment to ban abortion sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri. Both measures are expected to be debated by the Senate this month...
Although supporters say the court decision could produce a backlash that will rally support for the constitutional amendment proposed by Hatch, most Senators feel that it will only reinforce existing opinions. The proposal may not make it out of committee in the Democratic-controlled House, and if it does, it is unlikely to win the two-thirds support needed for passage there. Helms is once again pushing for his own peculiar remedy, a bill that would strip the courts of power to rule on the abortion issue. But it will probably be filibustered in the Senate, spurned in the House...
...inquiries continued. When a special prosecutor concluded last year that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan, the President proclaimed the case "closed." But evidence that the FBI had withheld information linking Donovan's old firm, Schiavone Construction Co., to organized crime prompted Labor Committee Members Orrin Hatch and Edward Kennedy last July to order an investigation into the handling of his confirmation...
...committee found that significant information was held back not only by the FBI but also by Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding. He produced an FBI memo declaring the investigation of Donovan "favorable and complete" but, according to Hatch, failed to mention a later FBI document describing alleged links between Donovan, Schiavone...