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- NATION, Page 53American NotesMARYLANDDouble Victory For Feminists
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- After a year of debate, Maryland Governor William D.
- Schaefer signed a bill last week that would protect a woman's
- right to have an abortion should the Supreme Court ever reverse
- its 1973 decision guaranteeing that right nationwide. The law
- allows abortion without restrictions up to the time a fetus is
- able to survive outside the womb; after that, an abortion can
- be performed only to protect a woman's health or when a fetus
- is deformed. While pro-choice advocates acclaimed the new law,
- antiabortion groups attacked it. "It will become the most
- liberal, the most extreme abortion law in the entire 50 states,"
- said delegate Timothy Maloney.
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- In another move hailed as a gain for women's rights,
- Schaefer last week commuted the sentences of eight women
- convicted of killing or assaulting men who had battered them.
- In December, Ohio's outgoing Governor Richard F. Celeste
- granted clemency to 26 such women. Feminist groups are urging
- other Governors to take similar action.
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