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Title: 1991 overturn the Gag Rule now.(Forty Years of Policy SIECUS on Sexual and Reproductive Rights)
Author: Debra W. Haffner
Publication: SIECUS Report (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S., Inc.
Volume: 32 Issue: 2 Page: 25(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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As a result of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, we are one step closer to the end of safe and legal abortion in the United States. We are one step closer to government-approved censorship of freedom of speech. We are one step closer to the government's abridgement of our sexual rights. In May 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the administration's Gag Rule restrictions on federally funded clinics. Clients at federally funded clinics will no longer be able to receive unbiased pregnancy options counseling. A pregnant woman who asks about abortion will only be told that the clinic does not consider abortion a method of family planning. Clinicians will not be able to refer...
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