Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October 1, after much legal wrangling, the abortion "gag rule" will go into effect in the nation's 4000 federally funded family planning clinics...
...truly bad piece of public policy, the gag rule will bar most staff members at such clinics from even discussing the option of abortion with pregnant women seeking counseling. And it provides yet another reason to vote against President Bush this November...
First promulgated by the Reagan administration in 1988, the gag rule was a not-so-disguised way for members of the religious right and other anti-abortion activists to inject their narrow views into government policies otherwise protected by Roe v. Wade. If family planning clinics can't even discuss abortion, gag rule proponents reason, fewer women will have abortions...
...even those who oppose abortion rights might find reason to oppose the gag rule...
...Reiser, a former stand-up comic, has knife-edge timing and a full repertoire of nervous tics, and Hunt manages to be both charming and exasperating at the same time. One sign of a sitcom that cares more about its characters than its gag lines: when Paul and Jamie start to fight, they ask their dinner guests to leave the room -- carrying their potential wisecracks with them. Privacy is one concept that becomes more precious with...