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<text id=91TT0452>
<title>
Mar. 04, 1991: American Notes:Maryland
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 04, 1991 Into Kuwait!
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 53
American Notes
MARYLAND
Double Victory For Feminists
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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