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THE BATTALION Page 9
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1977
the continuing clash over the abor
tion issue.
Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., sponsor
of a law which bars federal spending
for most abortions, said Monday’s
ruling gives him confidence the jus
tices will uphold it in a pending
case.
Advocates of liberalized laws said
they would concentrate on blocking
in the Senate a House-passed
amendment that would not even
allow federal funding for abortions
needed to save a mother’s life.
Joseph Ranh of Americans for
Democratic Action called Monday’s
ruling “a national tragedy, forcing
poor women into back alleys for
their abortions.” The American
Civil Liberties Union said it was
United Press International
VASHINGTON — The House
lysand Means Committee, which
ed some of President Carter’s
jor energy proposals, is giving a
rmer reception to the administra-
n’s secondary programs to con-
ve oil and gas.
nits latest action, the committee
voted to accept a watered-down
lion of the President’s tax-and-
ate plan for getting industries to
vert to use of coal and other
ire plentiful fuels.
iarlier, the powerful committee
blocked Carter’s key proposals
nickel-a-year hike in the gas tax
a rebate to owners of fuel effi-
nt cars.
ut the committee last week ap-
a tax on industries using oil
gas, which would generate
billion in seven years. Under
committee plan, an estimated
4 billion would he refunded for
estments in facilities that do not
oil or gas.
Monday, the committee decided
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1
to offer a choice: a utility or industry
could collect a refund up to its full
oil-gas tax for the investments that
qualified; or it could take an addi
tional 10 per cent investment tax
credit, on top of the existing 10 per
cent credit.
The extra 10 per cent would go to
businesses investing in energy
saving devices, such as solar, geo
thermal or wind energy mechanisms
or other conservation measures.
The Senate Commerce Commit
tee worried about a different oil
problem — paying for the messes
from offshore oil spills. Representa
tives from Alaska, New York and
Massachusetts Monday urged the
committee to set minimum stan
dards governing tanker liability for
oil spills and leave it to states to pass
stricter laws.
Committee Chairman Warren
Magnuson, D-Wash., said federal
legislation would not be needed if
states passed uniform laws, but
some states have no laws at all and
many others have unsatisfactory stat-
ounty reclaims ambulance;
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utes. In other congressional action
Monday:
JThe House Select Committee on
Assassinations hired a new chief
counsel — Professor G. Robert
Blakey — and said it will investigate
the slayings of President Kennedy
and Rev. Martin Luther King vigor
ously but secretly. Blakey asked
members of the press to “leave us
alone for awhile.”
JThe Senate took issue with the
Secret Service protection accorded
Treasury Secretary W. Michael
Blumenthal, the only Cabinet
member with such treatment. In a
report accompanying a bill funding
the Treasury Department, the Sen
ate questioned the traditional
practice, noting the protection cost
more than $1 million for former
Treasury Secretary William Simon
alone.
JBlumenthal told a Senate Bank
ing subcommittee the Carter ad
ministration favors permitting the
practice of writing checks on savings
accounts. He said an experiment
with the practice in six New Eng
land states has been successful, and
urged that it be allowed nationwide.
“among the worst decisions by a
Supreme Court generally insensi
tive to individual rights.”
A Planned Parenthood official
said the court eliminated in 1973 “a
two-class system of medical care in
abortion — one for the affluent who
could often find ways and means to
obtain safe abortions even when it
was illegal, and one for the poor,
who so often fell victim to the back
room butcher.”
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., said
the court decision was so unfair and
discriminatory against poor women
that it may “help rather than hurt”
those fighting the House-passed
legislation.
“Congress can no longer count on
the court to take us off the hook.
We’re going to have a floor fight no
matter what we do,” he said.
The Senate Appropriations
Committee voted, 11 to 0, Monday
to make no recommendation to the
full Senate on the amendment, but
decided afterwards to reconsider its
stand later.
The Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 3,
a state cannot be forced under the
Social Security Act or the Constitu
tion to finance elective abortions for
Medicaid patients even though it
subsidizes childbirth for needy wo
men.
It said lower courts, which held in
Connecticut and Pennsylvania cases
that states must fund abortions for
poor women, misinterpreted a
landmark 1973 decision striking
down most antiabortion laws.
That opinion “did not declare an
unqualified constitutional right to
abortion,” the majority said.
A state may make “childbirth a
more attractive alternative,” it said,
without interfering unduly with a
woman’s freedom to have an abor
tion.
“She continues as before to be
dependent on private sources for
the service she desires,” it said.
The court also ruled in favor of St.
Louis officials who had been or
dered by a lower court to provide
abortions for poor women in a city
hospital staffed by Roman Catholics.
Over 250,000 abortions a year are
federally subsidized at a cost of $40
million to $50 million. Funding con
tinues pending Supreme Court ac
tion on the Hyde amendment,
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