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Another possible approach would be to disallow abortions beyond an earlier point in pregnancy, based on the assumption that medical advances permit the fetus to survive outside the womb at an earlier point. A provision of the Missouri law at issue in the Webster case requires doctors to perform tests to determine the viability of the fetus before an abortion can be performed after the 20th week of pregnancy...
...footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to women who gave birth as teenagers. Pro-lifers maintain that the dimensions of the problem would be smaller than many fear, because banning abortion would encourage people to be more cautious about sex. "Once the law tells us that abortion is illegal, there will be far fewer pregnancies to abort," insists Dr. John Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee...
...fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
...abortion is sure to remain a burning issue. So long as Roe survives, the pro- life movement will keep up pressure for its reversal. And if the court dismantles Roe, the U.S. is likely to see a situation not unlike the one it lived through during Prohibition, when the law was flouted -- sometimes openly, sometimes covertly but very widely. A new era of uncertainty will open for American women, whose opportunities in life have been transformed in part by the freedom that Roe afforded. But two things are certain to remain unchanged. There will still be fighting about abortion...
State budgets have been severely strained by a combination of dwindling help from the debt-ridden national Government and Washington-mandated increases in spending for catastrophic health care and nursing homes. State officials also blame some unexpected consequences of the 1986 federal tax-reform law. Late in 1986 taxpayers rushed to sell securities and property before capital-gains taxes jumped from 20% to a current maximum of 33%. Some state planners rosily assumed this high revenue would continue. Cigarette smokers will pay for the miscalculation...