The Nation - News from Dec. 12, 1985
A Senate committee authorized funds for federal family-planning clinics for the next four years after working out a special deal with a key abortion foe. In a compromise reached with Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), the committee sent the Senate legislation to authorize the program with $142.5 million for 1986 and a 5% increase in each of the following three years. Hatch agreed not to attach anti-abortion language to the bill in return for a provision permitting state-funded clinics in Utah alone to require parental consent before a teen-ager gets birth control.
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