Court Rejects Abortion Curbs
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SAN FRANCISCO — In a stinging defeat for anti-abortion groups, the conservative-dominated California Supreme Court refused today to allow restrictions on Medi-Cal abortions for poor women to take effect.
Only Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas and Justice Edward Panelli voted to grant a hearing to Gov. George Deukmejian’s administration on its appeal of a lower-court order requiring full funding of abortions to continue. Four votes are needed for a hearing by the seven-member court. It is the 10th straight year that state courts have overturned the Legislature’s budget restrictions, which would have eliminated state funding for all but a small fraction of Medi-Cal abortions.
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