Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyde to The Last Days of Pompeii in nightly doses. The audience is small by TV standards (about 3.6 million a week compared with 37 million for a show like M*A*S*H). But the series is nonetheless at or near the top of the ratings for its time slot in several major cities and on the armed forces network...
Most constitutional law scholars, however, believe that Galebach is wrong and that the Helms-Hyde bill is flatly unconstitutional. Allowing Congress to define the meaning of life as it relates to the 14th Amendment, say these experts, would set a dangerous precedent. It would undermine the Judiciary's capacity to protect the rights of individuals from the whims of the majority. Even conservative scholars are upset by this attempt to get around Roe vs. Wade. Says Nixon's Solicitor General, Robert Bork, one who strongly disagrees with the Roe vs. Wade decision: "If the Human Life Statute becomes...
Each year since 1976, Hyde has successfully sponsored amendments, cutting off most federal funds for abortions, to appropriations bills. A Supreme Court ruling in 1980 upheld these restrictions as constitutional. New Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker, an ardent foe of abortion, has proposed eliminating federal financing even in cases of rape or incest. This would make funds available only for abortions that would save the life of the mother. Federally financed abortions
...have all but ended; they have dropped from 295,000, the year of the first Hyde amendment, to 2,400 in 1979. Supporters of abortion rights concede the federal funding issues have been lost, a defeat they feel is somewhat softened by the fact that many clinics, on humane grounds, will now waive part of the $200 average...
...choice lobbyists from the National Organization for Women (NOW) who converged on the state capital last week: "The Supreme Court has squarely put the responsibility for funding Medicaid abortions on the state government. I clearly intend to see that we do that." Republican State Senator James Donovan, the Hyde of Albany, plans to offer an amendment that would assure Carey will not have his way. Says Donovan of his antiabortion mission: "I think of Abe Lincoln, who freed the slaves when they were treated as little different from unborn children today-as non-persons." The legislature will probably appropriate...