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Poelker v. Doe (No. 75-442)
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES


432 U.S. 519

Poelker v. Doe

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT


No. 75-442 Argued: January 11, 1977 --- Decided: June 20, 1977

The city of St. Louis, in electing, as a policy choice, to provide publicly financed hospital services for childbirth but not for nontherapeutic abortions, held not to violate any constitutional rights. Maher v. Roe, ante p. 464.

515 F.2d 541, reversed and remanded.