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Title: 1978 legal briefs financing abortion: ploys revisited.(Forty Years of Policy SIECUS on Sexual and Reproductive Rights)
Author: Ralph Slovenko
Publication: SIECUS Report (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S., Inc.
Volume: 32 Issue: 2 Page: 25(1)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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Congress recently ended a four-month legislative deadlock on federally funded abortions for the poor. Under the compromise approved by the Congress, poor women who receive health care under the federal-state Medicaid program may have a government-paid abortion in instances where: (1) the mother's life is in danger if the fetus is carried to term; (2) the pregnancy results from rape or incest that is "promptly reported" to a law-enforcement or public health agency; or (3) two doctors determine that the mother risks "severe and long-lasting physical health damage" from the pregnancy.