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...disputed provision would have permitted Medicaid abortions for women who are victims of rape or incest, and who "reported promptly" to authorities. It was part of a spending bill that now goes back to the House Appropriations Committee for revision...
Smith and other abortion opponents said the vote demonstrated they can overcome future efforts to weaken the prohibition on most Medicaid abortions, adding that it shows the political ground has not shifted in favor of abortion rights, as some political strategists argue...
...House vote came two weeks after pro-choice lawmakers surpised even themselves by winning a 216-206 vote that added the amendment expanding Medicaid abortions to the appropriations bill for labor, health and education programs. It was the first time in nearly a decade that the more liberal language had passed the House, although it had easily cleared the Senate...
...Washington, where they rarely think of anything else, enough Congressmen read the political winds to hand right-to-lifers another reversal on the very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...
...proposed change in the law would affect few women. Rape and incest accounted for less than 1% of the 1.6 million pregnancies that ended in abortion last year. Only about one-quarter of those women -- roughly 4,000 -- were poor enough to qualify for Medicaid payments. Though Bush is hinting that his position is negotiable, he is on record as promising to veto the measure, a gesture to the pro-life groups he has been courting since he switched to their camp after joining the Reagan ticket...