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...issue an executive order to reinstate the so-called "global gag rule," the controversial measure that prevents international agencies that receive U.S. government funds from providing abortion services abroad, or even talking about abortion. "We know it is coming, and we are braced for it," says Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood. Other sources say the action, which pro-life groups have been urging ever since President Clinton suspended the practice early in his first term, could come as soon next week. Monday is the 27th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide...
...Bill Clinton's first acts as president was to issue an executive order to lift the gag rule, which had been in place since 1984. "What a difference an election makes," Feldt says. "Bush is sweeping back into town ready to slap those restrictions right back on. It will be his first move. If anybody ever wondered if their vote was important, you can see it right here...
...national Pro-Choice League, brought up the issue during the panel, preconditioning any meaningful dialogue with the end of anti-abortion violence. While Baird was neither the most eloquent nor the most convincing speaker on the panel (that award was definitely earned by Planned Parenthood President Gloria A. Feldt) his point is fair. While abortion-providers and other abortion rights activists are under constant threat of violence and targets of intimidation, it will be near impossible for them to converse meaningfully with anti-abortionists...
Gloria A. Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, said, "In the U.S. a small but loud minority are allowed to intimidate the pro-choice [movement...
...American Pharmaceutical Association's code of ethics. Any pharmacist whose personal beliefs prevented him from filling such a prescription must find someone who will. So day-after contraception is available, even if, for business reasons, Preven is not. "We don't care what their motivation is," says Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood, who gives the company good marks for its responsiveness. "Our concern is that women can get emergency contraception...