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...activists were applauding an even more stunning victory: the Louisiana legislature gave final approval to the nation's most restrictive abortion law. The bill would make abortion a punishable criminal act unless the life of the mother was at stake. It allows no exception for victims of rape or incest...
...labeling but not censorship, talks of 14 million children "at risk" and in need of counseling thanks to the "graphic brutality marketed to these kids through music and television." Lawmakers in 19 states went further; they considered proposing warning labels for any song dealing with such topics as drugs, incest, murder and suicide, which would conceivably outlaw depraved works like I Get a Kick Out of You, Die Walkure, Frankie and Johnny and Tosca. The music industry quickly forestalled such legislation by decreeing that record companies will decide which material is controversial and alert consumers with a label that reads...
Whitman said that the three percent of abortion cases that stem from rape and incest do not justify allowing abortions for the other 97 percent...
Governor Cecil Andrus, who is personally opposed to abortion, vetoed the bill late last week because it "was drawn so narrowly" and would "harm" Idaho women who became pregnant through rape or incest. Pro-life forces who had hoped the law would help persuade the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and ban abortion altogether will have to start over in another state...
Idaho's bill will give her a chance to disclose just what sort of burdens she has in mind. It provides that abortions be banned except in cases involving a rape that is reported within seven days; incest, if the girl is under 18 and reports it; severe fetal deformity; and threat to the mother's health. By those standards, about 95% of the 1,650 abortions that were performed in the state in 1988 would now be illegal. Though women who have abortions would not be sent to jail, their doctors could be liable for a $10,000 civil...