HARRISBURG — Two Pennsylvania senators are renewing an effort to ban coverage of elective abortions by insurance policies that are offered in Pennsylvania's health insurance marketplace that begins in 2014.

The bill passed the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee on Tuesday on an 8-to-5 vote.

However, the insurance policies must include coverage for treatment of any post-abortion complication or any miscarriage or complication related to a miscarriage. A similar bill is pending in the House.

Similar bills passed both the House and Senate in the two-year legislative session that ended Nov. 30, but the bills died after the chambers didn't resolve differences in them.

The landmark 2010 federal health care law creates the insurance marketplaces to help small businesses and individuals buy coverage.

Someone could still buy supplemental abortion coverage outside the marketplace.

NEW YORK — Microsoft's Windows 8 software appears to be driving buyers away from PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, research firm IDC said Wednesday. That's leading to the fastest drop in PC sales the firm has ever seen.Global shipments of PCs fell 14 percent in the first three months this year, IDC said. That's the sharpest plunge since the firm started tracking the industry in 1994.The report comes after a year of bad news for the PC. Consumers, especially in wealthy countries like the U.S., are steering their dollars toward tablets and smartphones rather than upgrading their home PCs. It's the biggest challenge to the personal computer since the IBM PC was released in 1981.

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