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Hawaii this week becomes the first state in the Union to legalize abortion on request, leaving the decision about the operation to the woman herself and her physician. The legislature completed passage of the bill last week and sent it to Governor John A. Burns. A Roman Catholic, Burns said he would not sign it but neither would he veto it. Unsigned, it becomes law in ten days...
...Hawaiian law is essentially what many physicians have been urging-so far, unsuccessfully-in several mainland states. It includes only minimal restrictions: the operation must involve a fetus that cannot live outside the womb (usually meaning less than 20 weeks of gestation); it must be performed by a licensed physician or surgeon (M.D. or doctor of osteopathy), and in a Government-licensed hospital. By comparison, the "liberalized" abortion laws passed by ten states, led by Colorado in 1967, require that each abortion must be approved by two or more disinterested physicians. All specify some medical need, such as the mother...
...growing dearth of individual physicians in the core city has caused most low-income people to depend on hospitals for their health care. In addition, the continually rising cost of acute in-patient care (this is particularly true of a teaching hospital) and the impossibility of being admitted to an in-patient bed without recommendation of a physician, have accentuated the importance of ambulatory care facilities...
...When next you are sick, do you wish to be attended by a physician who entered medical school to fill a quota or because of his medical aptitude?" Agnew asked...
Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...