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...million Americans have no insurance coverage whatsoever. Seven million families this year will incur medical expenses that will exceed 15 per cent of their total income. Fifty-one million Americans live in areas without sufficient access to health care services. Medical costs in general are running wild and Medicaid costs in particular threaten to bankrupt your states. Life expectancies vary widely by race and income levels, and infant mortality rates are 50-100 per cent higher in your urban poverty centers than in the nation as a whole...
...basis for the new law was laid in the spring of 1977 when the Supreme Court held that states need not supply Medicaid funds to women who want abortions. Since then almost 35 states have passed laws similar to Massachusetts...
However, three states have successfully overturned these laws and abortions can be performed with Medicaid funding if a doctor can testify that health would be endangered by having a baby. Proabortion groups in Massachusetts will go to court on Oct. 6 in an attempt to make a similar point...
Poor women have been able to continue using Medicaid funds to pay for their abortions since the first week of September, when the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Anti-Abortion Laws (MORAL) got a temporary injunction on the Massachusetts bill, and MORAL is hopeful that it will be able to completely overturn the Doyle-Flynn measure in October...
...abortion issue presents controversial moral questions, we feel that the decision is best left up to the individual, as the Supreme Court first ruled in 1975. Those who have moral objections to the act of abortion have every right to ask that their tax money not be used by Medicaid in this...