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News coverage of the pending abortion rights bill in Congress was heavy last week. Watching TV the other night, I was struck by a phrase used in a network report: "forcible rape." The report stated that Democrats were pushing hard for a bill guaranteeing Medicaid funding for abortions for victims of rape and incest, while Republicans were seeking a compromise to which the Democrats would not concede--abortions only for "forcible rape...
...there's a constitutional right to abortion, it is meaningless without Medicaid funding," Yard said...
...Medicaid financing for poor women's abortions has been restricted in one way or another since...
...provision agreed to by the House would allow Medicaid payments for abortions when the mother's life is in jeopardy or when the pregnancy resulted from a rape or incest that was "promptly" reported to authorities. Since 1981--and as recently as Aug. 2--the House has voted for language limiting federal aid to abortions in cases in which the woman's life was in danger...
Just a year ago, the Senate caved to the restrictive House position on Medicaid abortion financing by a vote...