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...income 10% below the poverty line. Under the Reagan program, her food stamps would be cut to $75 and after four months her AFDC grant would be wiped out entirely, reducing her income to 31% below the poverty line. On top of that, she would no longer qualify for Medicaid benefits, and any assistance she might get from a federal program to help the poor buy fuel to heat their homes would be reduced...
...goal is a "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution that would reverse Roe vs. Wade. The amendment would simply guarantee the right to life to the unborn from the moment of fertilization. A shorter-term strategy-so far largely successful-has been to halt federal funding for abortion through Medicaid. Meanwhile, across the country, in virtually every session of every state legislature, pro-lifers are fighting to halt the local funding of abortions for poor women...
...Hugh Carey's requested $12.3 million for some 50,000 welfare abortions. Carey, a Catholic with twelve children, told 300 pro-choice lobbyists from the National Organization for Women (NOW) who converged on the state capital last week: "The Supreme Court has squarely put the responsibility for funding Medicaid abortions on the state government. I clearly intend to see that we do that." Republican State Senator James Donovan, the Hyde of Albany, plans to offer an amendment that would assure Carey will not have his way. Says Donovan of his antiabortion mission: "I think of Abe Lincoln, who freed...
...Atlanta abortion clinic offered free abortions to Medicaid-eligible patients for one day only. Fifty women applied, more than double the normal daily number. Some 70 abortion foes turned out in pouring rain to protest at the clinic, many carrying small children...
...When South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, moved the next day to chop $7 billion out of the $22 billion in cost-of-living increases likely next year, he lost by eight votes. The splintered Democrats could not prevent the Republicans from cutting Medicaid and unemployment compensation and other social programs $200 million more than Reagan had requested, and all but four went along with a move by Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum to lessen a cut in the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank, a step that benefits big corporations...