The State : S.F. Study Asks AIDS-Related Abortions

A report to be presented to the San Francisco Health Commission recommends encouraging abortions for newly pregnant women infected by the AIDS virus. The report, drafted by a Health Department task force after a two-month study, also urges the city to encourage testing the blood of all women in high-risk AIDS groups. These include intravenous drug users, prostitutes and those with more than one sex partner. The task force chairman, Dr. Moses Grossman, estimated that five to 10 children born in the city this year will have been infected by the AIDS virus. “We don’t know how many of these children will get AIDS,” he said. Not all people infected with the virus get the disease. Grossman is chief of pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital.