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yn A4 EVANSVILLE COURIERS PRESS THURSDAY OCTOBER 19 2000 Firing up their jetpacks Judge in Indiana expands Medicaid abortion coverage yAMYFOMJtl MNonanwinv INDIANAPOLIS county judge ruled Wednesday that pregnant women who qualify for Medicaid can be reimbursed for abortion deemed medically i we argued and what I the judge agreed is that it is unconstitutional to prohibit re-inJwi-innanCnrftindingihvnM- ically necessary abortions when you cover all other necessary medical said Brigitte Amiri an attorney with the Center fior Reproductive Law and Itt-icy a New York agency that assisted with the lawsuit The dimes argued that women wWi lywiililjraa iv4i an ranrgr dj nm wltinln mJanwik Current state law allows Mad-icaid funds to be nsed for abortions when the life iB in danger or when the woman is a victim cf rape or incest but not The current Medicaid fond-iug flwna allows the state to substitute its judgment for that of learned medical professionals in an effort to promote a particular moral panda that disfavnra Thompson wrote in her decision contravenes the Indiana Constitution and specifically violates the privileges and immunities The Clinic for Women in Indianapolis and Pavilion in South Bend brought the suit in August 1999 The dinics argued the Medicaid policy diamminatad against kw-in- come women who suffered from certain medical conditions In Indiana pregnant women on Medicaid receive full cover-age for prenatal care delivery up to 60 days of post-partum care and other conditions that Mar-inn County Superior Court Judge Susan Macey Thompson found the current state rules unconstitutional saying that if the state chooses to provide Medicaid abortion funding in stipulated cases it also must provide funding for medically necessary shortens to term Amiri said Similar challenges were filed in 20 other states Counting Indiana ruling judges in IS of those cases have declared fonding restrictions violate state constitutions Associated Press Astronauts Jeff Wisoff and Michael Lopez temational space station Wednesday during AlegriamovepasttheUnitymoduleofthein- a televised spacewalk Spacewalkers cruise around yMARCUDUMI APanapanwMer Earlier Wednesday the two astronauts completed the Discovery fourth and final spacewalk in aa many days to install two new space station components The astronauts prepared the space station for the arrival of hugs solar panda in Decern her an American lab module in January and the orbiting outpost's first full-time residents scheduled to move in in No- walkers be tethered far the jet- pack damnnatmi'inm Rai-piii Discovery is docked to the space station the shuttle could not immediately dash after the if their jetpacks firilad The miniatun jetpack MMa caUed is meant for use on a space station Without the jetpack an CAPE CANAVERAL Fla Two spacewalking astronauts wrapped up construction work outside the international pace station on Wednesday then find up their jetpacks and cruised around Jeff Wisoff and Michael Lopez-Alegria took turns jetting over and around space shuttle payload bay to test the small nitrogen-powered rocket backpack that could someday save an astronauts life They wen on a leash the whole time But it was a loose leash it like being a one of the astronauts inside Discovery asked as Wisoff propelled himself 240 miles above Earth Wisoff replied Later he murmured: falling in Iowa" NASA insisted the Wisoff tried out the jetpack first slowly propelling himself toward the shuttle cargo bay and pausing to perform some twists and turns It was deliberately slow-going to simulate an emergency LopesrAIegria was at WiaofFs side the entire time Then they changed places Each test flight lasted just minutes and spanned only 50 could drift away and become lost in "safor is tthv4i arnnlW and lees powerful than the BnrV Rogers-like jetpack that was used a few times by shuttle astronauts in 1984 That device has long since D66Q reared EVERY ITEM IN EVERY DEPARTMENT MUST GO! ever felt like Buzz Lightyear Wisoff confided later in the day DO YOU KNOW IN YOUR LUNGS? 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