| Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Saturday September 28 2002 t 0 Motion I pushes health coverage for feftuses ISusDn WASHINGTON (AP)— The Bush administration said Friday it will consider developing fetuses as “unborn children" under a government-funded health program brushing aside complaints that the move is an effort to undercut abortion rights The administration said it is making the change to enable more pregnant women to obtain prenatal care Under the new rule states could extend health insurance to fetuses — or even embryos — from the moment of conception by enrolling them in the State Chil low-inco- for states that want to do more to’ ensure that women get critical prenatal care that will increase the chances that their children are bom healthy” Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a statement Friday He called the change a “common-sens- e compassionate measure" The final regulation first proposed in January will be published Wednesday in the Federal Register It will take effeict 30 days later HHS received a whopping 7783 comments on the proposal including dren's Health Insurance Program The debate will now shift to states which must decide whether to add fetuses to their'programs Both sides of the debate predicted battles ahead Because CHIP as the program is known is aimed at children it does not typically cover parents or pregnant women although states can get permission to include adults if they request it Under these new rules it will be a routine matter for states to add unborn children to their CHIP programs “It represents a speedy new option many that argued the administration was trying to lay legal groundwork establishing independent rights of the fetus as a step toward abolishing abortion Some accused the administration of trying to circumvent congressional debate others called the proposal regulation an “anti-choidisguised as a health care proposal” Critics also argued that given the : divisive debate over when life begins HHS should not adopt a policy that takes one side The department responded that CHIP is voluntary and no womarf — ce and no state — is required to participate It said “Prenatal care benefits both mother and child and therefore does ndt create tension between them” “This rule rather than limiting an uninsured woman's choices in fact expands them by offering important health care that may not otherwise be available to her” said the regulation 111-pa- Douglas Johnson legislative direc- tor for the National Right to Life See COVER RI PROVIDENCE (AP) squawk bird has The become the subject of a custody battle since the April slaying of a Florida woman Joan Jacobs Jacobs' Rhode Island rela- tives say that the talking bird sounds remarkably like Jacobs and that the woman was so fond of Jade that she took showers with the parrot and taught it to sing “Itsy Bitsy Jade was registered to Gordon Jacobs a jewelry dealer who bred dozens of birds animal control offi- tall Bird battle: An eight-inc- h parrot named Jade has become the focus of a family custody battle following the murder of Joan cials say But Joan Jacobs' family contends he bought Jade for his wife to get her interested in his hobby “It’s a part of my sister” says Lori Paolino Joan Jacobs' sister “It washer friend her bird her pet And we love that bird It reminds me of her”' Paolino says that she recalls her sister feeding Jade with an eyedropper when he was young and that she used to mistake the parrot's voice for Joan’s when her sister put the ' ' bird on the phone “I'd say ‘You got me again' You tricked me'” says Paoli-no‘wlives in Johnston with her yellow cockateel Gloria Joseph DeAngelis an attorney and family friend was an annual visitor to the Jacobs home and says he only Saw Jade with Joan Her family will go to court to get custody' of the bird he says ' “The bird would her wherever she was in the Jacobs house’’ DeAngcjis $ays Spider" ho K nMIM sill He' maleblue-fronte- d Amazon: belongs to him He wants Jade to remain paired with another parrot of his — outside jail of course Gordon Jacobs has pleaded innocent and is awaiting trial Police have said he told a dispatcher twice the night of the slaying that he shot his wife Investigators say the slaying may have been over money be-wit- THelwo bird wet J ukiiM a Palm Beach County Fla animal shelter after Gordon Jacobs arrest TVvo weeks ago they were released to his attorney who gaivp them to a Florida family Gina DiPace watched over y Jade during his stay at the animal shelter She says Jade never sang never mimicked Joan’s voice and didn't ' seem to miss her or Gordon $10-a-da- WASHINGTON (AP) — The finance ministers of the Western Hemisphere seeking to project confidence in the face of a severe economic cri-sis in Latin America pledged Friday to work harder to bolster growth and endorsed a new plan to choke off terrorist financing a top priority of tie United States ’ holds a Help" sign as police surround demonstrators In Demonstrators are in Washington to protest the International Monetary Fund-Worl-d A protestor WASHINGTON (AP) — Demonstrators chained them- - ' selves together bicycled through downtown streets and I at downtown parks Frias day finance ministers began a weekend of meetings About 600 protesters were arrested and one was slightly injured Although the protesters had pledged to shut down the nation’s capital there were only minimal disruptions to the morning rush as the demonstrators made their way through downtown Washington protesting against the ' Bush administration’s envi ronmental policies the World Bank and “corporate greed” pthers protested a war against gas tanks on 330000 Crown Victoria police cars across the country after at least a dozen officers were killed in flay crashes Ford agreed to pay for the modifications and study ways to make the cars safer after police departments said the vehicles are none to burst into flames in d crashes Approximately 80 percent of police cars on 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