AIDS: Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, R-Kans., has proposed legislation that would implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for universal counseling and voluntary HIV-antibody testing of pregnant women. The proposal was tacked onto the Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization bill. Under the Senator's plan, jurisdictions with a high HIV-seroprevalence rate among child-bearing women would qualify for Federal funds to promote counseling and testing. This plan is an alternative to legislation sponsored by Reps. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Gary Ackerman, D-NY, that would require mandatory testing of all newborns whose mothers had not been tested during pregnancy. Opponents of mandatory testing of pregnant women state that it would drive women away from important prenatal care. Coburn and Ackerman hope to amend the Ryan White reauthorization bill to force testing of all newborns. The Congressmen believe the bill will prevail in the House and be voted down in the Senate.