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Abortion funds considered
Plan would let taxes be used
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House plans to end the ban on federally financed abortions for poor women, which critics say would hurt the economy. "The attack" of abortion,
Both sides predicted a heated battle in Congress.
White House communications director George Stephanopoulos said yesterday that Clinton would not include the ban when he sends his fiscal 1994 budget to Congress next week.
For 16 years, the ban, which originated in Congress, has been written into the budget. It bars federally paid Medicaid abortions except when
here is a threat to the woman's life.
The policy shift was welcomed by the National Abortion Rights Action League, which said current law short-changes poor women.
"The issue here is fairness and equity," said NARAL President Kate Michelman. "It's one of ensuring that we do not have a two-tiered health care system — one for poor, low-income women and one for those of us with means."
According to NARAL, 9 percent of women of reproductive age get their medical care though Medicaid.
tution had no estimate on what repealing the ban might cost.
Hydie, who drafted the bill that banned federally financed abortions, predicted Clinton would seek to make abortion a "mandated benefit" and warned that would make it more difficult to enact his health care package.
Clinton's action sparked intense speculation about the broader issue of whether his health care proposals would be as "a basic benefit" for all Americans.
Stephanopoulos said the adminis-
White House aides declined to comment on how abortion would be handled in the president's health care package. However, Clinton said a day after his inauguration that he would present a plan that guarantees all Americans "access to quality, affordable health care — including abortion services."
New treatment slows cancer
he Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Scientists have developed the first medicines intended to stop malignancy by disarming a rogue cancer gene, an approach that could help control many forms of tumors.
learned in recent years that mutations in several genes are critical steps on the path to malignancy. When these normal genes go bad, cells lose control over their growth, resulting in cancer.
The new treatment is intended to block a cancer-causing gene, a so-called oncogene, which appears to play a role in cancer of the breast and pancreas, among other organs.
Although the ultimate cause of cancer is often a mystery, scientists have
The latest approach is intended to short-circuit this process by attacking an oncogene, known in scientific shorthand as neu.
on people within a year.
mark Greene of the University of Pennsylvania, who developed the approach, said it has shown great promise in tumor-prone lab animals. He said that he plans to begin testing it
Greene said that his animal studies provided the first demonstration that one could prevent genetically driven tumors.
The neu oncogene makes a protein called P185, which plays a role in triggering cells' uncontrolled growth. Greene's strategy is to fashion an antibody that locks onto this protein and renders it harmless.
Greene, whose team discovered the neuonucleus nearly a decade ago, said it was involved in about 30 percent of breast cancer.
Clinton eyes Gov. Cuomo for Court
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Gov. Mario Cuomo is President Clinton's first choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Byron White. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
Others are in the running for the nomination, and the president hasn't made up his mind. He didn't have to lead the pack, the paper said.
Clinton frequently has said that Cuomo has the qualities he wants on the Supreme Court.
"He is a legal scholar who also understands the impact of the law on real people's lives," Clinton said last year.
The president has been pressured to appoint a woman or a minority; however, White House aids believe the president will have a chance to appoint at least one or two more people to the court, the Journal said.
The Jewish Democratic Council has pushed the president to name a Jewish candidate, said Rahm Emanuel, the White House political director. Hispanic and African-American groups also have made their recommendations known, the paper said.
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