"Court Halts Restoration of Family Planning Clinic Cuts"

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"Court Halts Restoration of Family Planning Clinic Cuts"

United Press International (12/27/89)

Abstract: Los Angeles--California's 2nd District Court of Appealshas temporarily suspended a San Luis Obispo judge's order to restore $24 million in state funding for family-planning clinics across the state. Republican Gov. George Deukmejian used his line-item veto power to drastically cut California's $36.2 million family-planning budget. The state contends that only thelegislature and the governor have the power to restore vetoed funds. The appeals court likely will take several weeks to review whether the lower court overstepped its bounds, and whether the statute the judge used establishes a right to family-planning funds. The cuts have left thousands of poor women without treatment or with delays in treatment, said Stan Dorn, a spokesman for the National Health Law Program, one of theplantiffs in the suit. About half a million women rely on the program for birth control, pregnancy testing, abortion, and testing for HIV and cervical cancer. Researchers say the cuts will result in unwanted pregnancies, additional welfare costs, and an increase in AIDS cases among the state's poor.

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