Word: gagged
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Postponement is a luxury Bush can no longer afford. The President has already vetoed legislation broadening abortion rights five times, and a sixth, even more controversial proposal will hit his desk soon. This time the question concerns abortion counseling. Congress has voted to overturn the "gag rule," the federal regulation that forbids doctors at 4,000 federally funded family-planning clinics even to mention the abortion option to pregnant women. Another veto is expected, but the White House and Republican campaign advisers are split over the political repercussions...
BOSTON--Pro-choice groups in the Boston area are redoubling their efforts after Congress failed to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would have lifted the socalled "gag rule" on abortion advice...
Nourse said that the gag rule, which prevents federally-funded medical clinics from discussing abortion as an option with pregnant women, is an insult...
...country is overwhelmingly pro-choice and Congress is skirting the problem rather than addressing the real issue, which is, Do women in this country have the right to make decisions about their own bodies?'" Yellin said. "[The gag rule] is un-American in its most basic sense...
...groups christened 1990 the Political Year of the Woman, but only one of the seven women who ran for the Senate last year, Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, was elected; she voted for Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take up Senator John Danforth's civil rights bill, which for the first time would award compensatory damages to victims of sexual harassment...