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  • Title: Things that make Republican loyalists uneasy in a presidential year. Gagging on the rules.
    Author: Goodman E.
    Journal: Sun; 1992 Mar 27; ():15A. PubMed ID: 12317219.
    Abstract:
    The President of the United States has imposed a gag rule for health workers in government funded family planning clinics to prevent them from mentioning abortion to clients. In fact, the conservative dominated Supreme Court backs this rule. These workers had already been prohibited earlier from performing abortions. The gag rule forces them to say to any client who brings up abortion that the clinic regards abortion as an inappropriate family planning method. The government has now expanded from the bedroom to the examining room. President Bush has vetoed Congress' vote to overturn the rule. Yet later he announced that he added a modifier to the gag rule: physicians could mention abortion, but other health workers could not. It was brought to his attention that the modifier was elitist, sexist, and cynical since it allowed physicians who tend to be highly educated males to mention abortion and not allow less educated nurses who tend to be females to do so. So then de denied that he changed the gag rule. His contradictory position is further illustrated by the fact that he favors both the gag rule and a private physician patient relationship. The Republican party wants to force down the abortion issue at least until after the election in November since the majority of people are prochoice but passive. To remain in control, the party must appease the antiabortion fraction without taking away abortion rights of the prochoice fraction. Party members are betting that as long as the middle class still can obtain a legal abortion, it disregards the abortion limits since the limits apply to poor women, rural women, and young women. Abortion may very well be a campaign issue in 1992 unlike in 1988. Thus President Bush had no intentions of being clear on the gag rule.
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