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Ten governors press
Supreme Court to reject
restrictions on abortions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pro-
choice advocates cheered Ver
mont Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin
on Sunday as she unveiled an un
usual plea to the Supreme Court
from 10 .governors urging the
justices to reject efforts to restrict
abortions.
The governors took their stand
in a friend-of-the-court brief
urging the high court to strike
down an Illinois statute they said
would impose “extremely bur
densome requirements” on abor
tion clinics.
The governors said that while
it is their job to enforce constitu
tional rights, it is up to the courts
to define those rights.
They urged the high court not
to shrink from the principle laid
down in the landmark 1973
Texas case, Roe v. Wade, holding
that women have a constitutional
right to abortions during the first
three months of pregnancy.
The brief concerning the Illi
nois case, Turnock v. Ragsdale,
was signed by Kunin and Govs.
James Blanchard of Michigan,
Richard Celeste of Ohio, Steve
Cowper of Alaska, Mario Cuomo
of New York, Michael Dukakis of
Massachusetts, Booth Gardner of
Washington, Neil Goldschmidt of
Oregon, John McKernan of
Maine and Roy Romer of Colo
rado.
McKernan is a Republican; the
other nine are Democrats.
The governors’ brief, dropped
off at court offices Saturday, said:
“It would be unprecedented
for this court, having recognized
a fundamental constitutional
right, to withdraw that right and
throw the abortion issue back into
the political arena.”
The governors expressed “con
cern that the workable and re
st r a i n i n g constitutional
guidelines that have developed
since Roe v. Wade may yield to
laws that discriminate unfairly
against large segments of our
population.”
matically changed in the past
weeks.”
She cited the failure of a b
tion restrictions during a spe (
session of the Florida legislaj,
last week, and the House vote
expand Medicaid eligibility
abortions to victims of rape an
incest as evidence of that chain
Kunin told reporters after ad
dressing the closing session of the
20th annual conference of the
National Abortion Rights Action
League, “The climate has dra-
She said the 1973 Roe v. W
decision had provided a “\v 0 ,
able" definition “on a verytoui
emotional, personal, painful
sue. ... A lot of people just do;
want to have to start definingj
over again.”
President Bush said Friday
is looking to see if there is “roo
for flexibility” to avoid a veto
the Medicaid abortion funding
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