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BOSTON--Key portions of the state's new universal health care law would be delayed or eliminated under a measure passed by the House, but Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has vowed to veto the action...
Massachusetts representatives voted 114-34 yesterday for changes to the health care law, but the proposals may never get as far as the governor's desk because the Senate has consistently supported the landmark package...
...practical impact: any woman can still legally get an abortion, even in Missouri. The Truman Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Missouri hospital in Columbia immediately stopped performing abortions, since they receive public funds. But Reproductive Health Services, a St. Louis clinic that challenged the Missouri law in the high court, and other private facilities remain open. The closing of publicly subsidized facilities could be construed as a back-door way to deny otherwise permissible abortions to the poor. No restrictions are ever likely to thwart the ability of the well-to-do to arrange abortions...
NATION: By upholding a restrictive abortion law, the Supreme Court sets the stage for a corrosive political fight...
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