Word: shalala
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala proposed government activism in tackling the problems of domestic violence in a speech at the Kennedy School last night...
...speech titled, "Building on the Violence Against Women Act: New Challenges for a Safer America," Shalala advocated a "seamless system" which would protect women in danger of abuse...
...policy that banned funding to international organizations that promoted comprehensive family planning, and signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to ensure that women and their doctors can enter clinics without fearing intimidation and violence. And the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Donna Shalala, implemented a change to the Hyde Amendment obligating states to pay for abortions for poor women whose pregnancies result from rape or incest, or endanger the life of the mother...
...chastened Clinton Administration, obviously aware that the next Congress is certain to be even less friendly than the current one, admitted that the 1995 version of health-care reform will resemble a fullback plunge and not this year's long bombs. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala told reporters a scaled-back approach was the only politically viable option, since voters "told us they were very gun-shy over taking on the whole system, every aspect of it. They would like it to be in stages and see what the implications are of each piece as we move along...
Time and again, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala has warned, "Domestic violence is an unacknowledged epidemic in our society." Now, finally, lawmakers are not only listening -- they are acting. In New York last week, the state legislature unanimously passed a sweeping bill that mandates arrest for any person who commits a domestic assault. Members of the California legislature are pressing for a computerized registry of restraining orders and the confiscation of guns from men arrested for domestic violence. This week Colorado's package of anti-domestic-violence laws, one of the nation's toughest, will go into effect...