Supreme Court to hear cases
on government and abortions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A decade after it
legalized abortion, creating both a new area ot
American law and a still-raging moral storm, the
Supreme Court is nearing what may be its second
most-important decision on abortion.
At issue: How far can governments go in
making abortions more difficult to obtain?
The nation's highest court will hear three
hours of arguments Tuesday on abortion cases
from Virginia, Missouri and Ohio
The four major questions the justices will be
asked to answer, in a decision expected by July,
are these:
Can states or local communities require thal
all abortions on women more than three months
pregnant be performed in a hospital?
Abortions in hospitals generally are more
expensive than those performed in abortion clin
ics, and in many areas most or all hospitals refuse
to perform abortions on women beyond their first
trimester of pregnancy
Can minors, even those found to be ma
ture,'' be required to have the consent of a parent
or judge before obtaining abortions? The Su
preme Court appeared to condone such a requir
ement three years ago
Can doctors be required to tell patients
seeking abortions that the fetus is "a human life7''
Can governments require doctors to wait 24
hours after a woman signs a consent form
The court's latest consideration of the issue
comes at a time when anti-abortion forces seem
to have lost momentum in Congress
A pair of bills aimed at outlawing abortion —
one by amending the Constitution to overcome
the court s landmark decision and the other by
declaring a fetus a person" — are nowhere near
passage
Adding political significance to Tuesday's
arguments is the Reagan administration's deci
sion to get involved
Under the direction of Attorney General Wil
liam French Smith, the Justice Department has
urged the court to give states and local commun
ities more leeway in regulating abortion
For the first time since the Supreme Court
legalized abortion in 1973, a Justice Department
lawyer will argue in an abortion case in which the
government is not a party and no federal law is
involved
The 1973 decision, called Roe vs Wade, was
based on a woman's constitutional right to
privacy Led by Justice Harry Blackmun, the court
said a woman's decision to have an abortion
during the first three months of her pregnancy
must be left to her and her doctor
Reagan on S. American tour
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
Ronald Reagan travels to South
America this week, hoping to
improve ties strained by differ
ences over things from drugs to
diplomacy and to show interest
in a region that has felt neglect
ed by successive U S adminis
trations
He returns to Washington
briefly today from a six-day
California vacation before set
ting off Tuesday on a five-day
tour of Brazil, Colombia. Costa
Rica and Honduras
Reagan is to meet with
leaders of two other Latin na
tions: Pres Efrain Rios Montt of
Guatemala during the visit to
Honduras and Pres Alvaro
Magana of El Salvador on the
Costa Rican stop
With U S differences with
Latin America over the Falk
lands conflict beginning to fade
— to the dismay of most South
American nations, the United
States supported Britain over
Argentina — Reagan is expect
ed to turn his attention to trade
problems and economic issues
In each of the four selected
countries, he is likely to en
counter complaints as each
tries to assert itself and emerge
from the U S shadow But the
United States also considers
each country to be among its
best allies in Latin America
The U S -Brazilian relation
ship soured when Pres Jimmy
Carter emphasized human
rights and Brazil canceled an
old military agreement But with
Brazil, ruled by the military since
a 1964 coup, apparently headed
toward a democratically elected
government, the State Depart
merit says human rights prob
lems have almost disappeared
Brazil is a major competitor
for Third World markets and its
foreign policy is directed at pro
tecting its export markets Brazil
exports sugar, auto parts, com
puter components, frozen
orange juice, coffee and cocoa
— all of which will find their way
into U S commerce
U S quotas on sugar imports
have hurt Brazil, but that prob
lem is symbolic of the overall
trade relationship
In an example of the political
balancing such a trip demands,
Reagan will fly from Brazil, with
its military government, to
Colombia, run by civilians A
state department official, asked
why Reagan was visiting
Colombia, replied: “Because
he's going to Brazil. ”
Burnt body found at Kennedy grave
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
group of tourists visiting Arling
ton National Cemetery Sunday
discovered the charred body of
a man at the grave of Pres John
Kennedy, authorities said
The badly-burned body, lying
three feet from the eternal
flame, was discovered shortly
after 8 am, according to Sgt
Michael Furr, a spokesman for
the Military District of Washing
ton
The body was lying face down
with the feet closest to the
flame, Furr said
The spokesman said no iden
tification papers or notes of any
kind were found with the body
and most of the man's clothing
had been burned away.
Preliminary investigation in
dicated the man was between
25 and 30 years old and died in
the early morning hours, Furr
said.
The cemetery is located in
Arlington, Va., across the Po
tomac River from the District of
Columbia.
An autopsy was to be per
formed Monday by the Fairfax
County Medical Examiner's of
fice to determine the cause and
time of death, U S. Park Police
said.
Furr said it had not been de
termined if the man died at the
gravesite, if other people were
involved in the death, or if the
man's wounds had been caused
by the small gas flame that
burns constantly at the grave
site.
Kennedy was assassinated in
Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963
Furr said the only other
similar incident at the Kennedy
gravesite was when a man
committed suicide there in
1973.
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