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WHEN INSTITUTED in 1998 through an executive order written by Bush, the gag rule did not permit medical professionals in federally funded clinics to speak of abortion as an option to their patients. By doing this, Bush hoped to gain more conservative support...
...March 20, though, Bush flip-flopped and modified the rule. In its new form, the gag rule allows certified doctors to mention abortion as an option to their patients, but they are not allowed to refer them to doctors or clinic which perform abortions. Nurses are still not allowed to talk about abortion with patients...
...media attention has prompted Bean-Bayog'sattorneys to move to place a gag order on allphysicians and relatives involved in the case,Stromsten said...
...allowing doctors to use their own judgment on whether to discuss the abortion option, the Bush Administration is trying to dissociate itself from the "gag rule," issued under Ronald Reagan in 1988, without offending conservative voters. But abortion-rights advocates immediately condemned the new rules since most health-care professionals at federally funded clinics are not doctors...
...have been gas because it didn't havemuch of a smell and it made me gag," saidextension school student Joel C. Tillinghast