Word: mcrae
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Miscellaneous. While a 1973 decision allowing abortions still stands, many poor women will be unable to afford them, now that the court has upheld a federal law cutting off Medicaid funding of abor tions except in very limited situations (Harris vs. McRae). That decision followed by two weeks one that allowed the patenting of new manufactured forms of life, which should spawn even more laboratory activity in a field whose boundaries can only be imagined (Diamond vs. Chakrabarty). A federal regulation tightening the limits on how much benzene vapor can be in the air in work places was challenged...
...Cora McRae, 24, a Brooklyn mother, was pregnant again in 1976 and wanted an abortion. She was poor and went to Planned Parenthood for advice, but was told that the Government could not pay for her operation. In October the Hyde Amendment, which cut off federal funds for all abortions except for pregnancies that endangered a woman's life, would go into effect. But Cora McRae's plight aroused the sympathies of civil rights lawyers, who started a legal battle in her behalf. Last week that battle culminated in a sweeping decision by Brooklyn Federal District Court Judge...
...lawyers first won a preliminary injunction against the Hyde Amendment from Judge Dooling in 1976, and McRae got her abortion. Ten months later, however, the Supreme Court ruled that its 1973 decision guaranteeing a woman's right to abortion did not require the Government to pay for poor women's abortions if they were "nontherapeutic," meaning the woman's health or life was not endangered by pregnancy. But the high court did not rule on whether the state could be required to pay for an abortion that a doctor deemed medically necessary. The list of plaintiffs expanded...