[3] These circumstances are governed by the Hyde Amendment, first
implemented in 1978.
Between 1981 and 1993, a Medicaid-funded abortion was available only if a woman's life was in
danger; since October 1993, the circumstances had been expanded to cover pregnancies resulting
from rape or incest.
[4] The Population and Consumption Task Force has chosen to focus on certain
materials issues
and has not examined energy in detail. The Energy and Transportation Task Force of the PCSD
has the mandate to study energy issues. Also, since the oil shocks of the 1970s, a great deal of
work on energy has improved understanding of the numbers and concepts, fleshed out policy
recommendations and their likely economic and social impacts, and even allowed experiments
with various policy instruments. In contrast, understanding of materials issues is perhaps 20
years behind the understanding of energy issues and is underrepresented in conversations about
sustainable development. Thus, the Task Force has looked with some emphasis on materials
issues in the course of its deliberations.
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