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...fights racial discrimination and sends welfare money to the needy. The department's health services send a steady stream of payments to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. HEW conducts more than half the nation's biomedical research into cancer and other killer diseases. The Food and Drug Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies...
Costanza, whose open clash with Carter last year over his stand against the use of Medicaid funds to finance abortions brought her extensive media coverage, speculated that if she had expressed similar disagreement in the Nixon administration. "I would have been aborted...
...Right-to-Lifers did not come out ahead [Dec. 19]. On the contrary, it is a victory for pregnant women who desire abortions, that about one-third may still be financed by federal-state Medicaid funds. Added to this will be the continued payments with state funds by 15 or so enlightened states...
Buoyed by last week's victory, the right-to-lifers immediately began planning their congressional strategy for next year. They will press for a ban on all Medicaid abortions, without exception, and ask that these procedures be outlawed at military hospitals. They will also lobby against including abortions in any national health insurance program that Congress may consider in the future...
Congress avoided this thicket until June 1976, when the House overwhelmingly supported Hyde's proposal to ban federal funds for Medicaid abortions. Caught by surprise, Senate liberals adopted a strategy that backfired: they went along with Hyde's bill, assuming that the Supreme Court would find it unconstitutional. But the court last June upheld state laws banning Medicaid abortions, despite an impassioned plea from Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 abortion decision, that the latest ruling was "almost reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.' " His point: the court in effect was making medically safe abortions legally...