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...group easiest to identify and help: adolescents who are already pregnant or have given birth. The goals: to ensure that the girls obtain adequate prenatal care, continue their education and learn how to be good parents. Providing prenatal care has become a bigger problem since 1982, when the Reagan Administration reduced the appropriation for the Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children, which offers nutritional supplements and medical care to low-income expectant mothers. The cuts, say critics, will prove expensive in the long run, because caring for undersize, ailing infants through Medicaid is many times as costly as preventive...
...Reagan Administration instituted a program to, in its words, "encourage teenagers not to engage in sexual activities" and foster "good communication between parents and child about sexual matters." The plan has won favor with conservative church groups but has been derided by family-planning advocates as an unrealistic "chastity act." Terrance Olson, professor of family sciences at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is using funds from the new program to develop a conservative sex-education curriculum. Olson's offering stresses abstinence, and, he says, "we try to involve teenagers with their parents in understanding the issues of marriage, family...
...Reagan Administration has taken steps to make it difficult for teenagers to obtain contraceptives. Since taking office, the President has repeatedly tried to restrict the availability of family-planning services. One-third of the women who seek such services at federally funded clinics are teenagers. In 1983 the Administration further attempted to control teenage access to contraceptives by issuing what quickly became known as the "squeal rule." The regulation required federally funded clinics to notify parents within ten days of prescribing contraceptives to minors. However, the squeal rule was squelched in the courts on the ground that it would have...
...pressures in all industrialized nations, including the U.S. A glaring example of what not to do is the Jenkins bill, named for Georgia's Congressman Edgar L. Jenkins. The bill, which calls for restrictions on textile imports from China and other Asian nations, passed both houses of Congress, but Reagan killed it with a veto...
...moved quickly to consolidate his power, firing old-line bureaucrats by the score and wooing popular support by touring Soviet farms and factories in the manner of a handshaking, baby-kissing Western politician. He broke the long, frozen silence between the nuclear superpowers by agreeing to meet President Ronald Reagan in Geneva for the first Soviet-American summit in six years. Their November talks in front of a cozy fire moved none of the substantive issues closer to solution. On the paramount question of arms control, though both have proposed a 50% cut in offensive nuclear weapons, agreement is still...