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...court's ruling in Rust v. Sullivan made little medical or intellectual or moral sense. It does not forbid women to seek abortion counseling and referrals. But it narrows -- and in some cases may even eliminate -- access to such services for many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates...
...vote that stirred the most notice was the tie-breaking yea cast by David Souter, the court's newest Justice. Pro-choice advocates had earlier been encouraged by Souter's sharp questioning of U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr during oral arguments in the Rust case last fall. "The physician cannot perform a normal professional responsibility," Souter had said. "You are telling us ((that the government)) in effect may preclude professional speech." Yet last week Souter concurred in a majority opinion based on that very reasoning. Since the ruling did not directly address the question of a woman's right...
...concerns about medical ethics. Alexander Sanger, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said the 1988 & regulations amount to "government-enforced malpractice" by violating "the most basic principles of health care: telling patients the truth, the whole truth, about their condition and their options." Within hours of the Rust decision, Sanger announced that the Planned Parenthood clinic in the South Bronx, where petitioner Dr. Irving Rust serves as medical director, will give up Title X funds and continue to advise women on their full range of options...
...class bias already swirling around capital punishment, there are concerns that a decision upholding Payne's death sentence will produce further inequities. Hypothetically, the grieving family of a murdered bank president would be persuasive witnesses for the death penalty, while no one would speak for a slain prostitute. Diann Rust-Tierney of the A.C.L.U. is worried that the Supreme Court will "sanction different punishment based on the worth of the victim and aggravate an already pronounced discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied...
...still use the planes -- and their pilots, who remain in detention -- as leverage in any future bargaining with Iraq over a final settlement of the Iran-Iraq war, for which there is now only an oral peace pact. If that fails and the planes eventually decompose into pricey rust heaps, at least Iran will have the satisfaction of knowing that Saddam was denied their...