Word: hydes
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...right which it affirmed for women under Roe v. Wade and which has been slowly undermined ever since. States have severely limited a woman's access to abortion through waiting periods and parental consent laws, while the federal government has denied access to abortions to poor women through the Hyde Amendment which mandates that no federal funds can be used to pay for an abortion...
Jack Kevorkian must be rolling over in his jail cell. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would outlaw the use of federally controlled drugs in physician-assisted suicide. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde, is a pointed rebuke to Oregon voters, who passed the Death With Dignity Act in 1997, permitting doctors to prescribe (but not administer) lethal levels of painkillers to terminally ill, mentally competent patients who are within six months of dying. Under a law modeled on Hyde's bill, doctors convicted of aiding in a suicide could spend at least 20 years...
...could reemerge in the battle over the right to die. In a little-noticed move Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill banning the use of "controlled substances" - prescription drugs - in physician-assisted suicide, which is currently legal only in Oregon. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), was approved by a 16-8 committee vote, and will face a full House vote in the coming weeks. Sponsors of the measure hope that it will prevent terminally ill patients and their doctors from ending the patient?s life. The House bill, and its Senate version, sponsored by Majority...
Opposition to Hyde?s bill has been quiet so far, but if the bill passes in the House, that could change quickly. Democrats are grumbling over an apparent intrusion into states? rights, and although President Clinton has not taken a stand on the bill at this point, "it is definitely on the administration?s radar scope," says Donnelly. It's likely that conservative poster boys Hyde and Nickles, long wedded to the idea of a less intrusive Federal government, will come under fire for their refusal to accept Oregon voters? autonomy. And if the bill makes its way through...
...Burton's erratic behavior (calling the President a "scumbag"; shooting a pumpkin in his backyard to simulate the Vince Foster head wound) has drained a lot of potency out of controversies with which the G.O.P. would like to beat the Clinton Administration. To avoid a circus, Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde suggested that his committee form a five-person commission composed of non-office holders to handle a Waco investigation. Some in the G.O.P. want Burton to hand his material over once the commission is up and running. Says a G.O.P. leadership aide: "We've got as much out of this...