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- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Abortion About-Face
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- Abortion About-Face
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Clinton's first big batch of orders lifts a number of Reagan-Bush
- prohibitions
- </p>
- <p> Even before he had time to feel settled in the Oval Office,
- Bill Clinton began a sweeping reversal of 12 years of Republican
- policy. The President on Friday signed several major White
- House orders. One abolished Dan Quayle's Council on
- Competitiveness, which critics had assailed for weakening
- environmental regulations. The others all concerned abortion.
- Clinton ended the Reagan-Bush "gag rule" on abortion counseling
- at federally financed clinics and lifted prohibitions on
- fetal-tissue research, abortion at military hospitals and
- funding for overseas population-control programs. Said Clinton:
- "We must free science and medicine from the grasp of politics."
- No way. Protesters who had gathered at the White House to decry
- the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision of 20 years ago (the
- coincidence of the anniversary and the orders was no coincidence
- whatever) blamed Clinton's "wicked counselors" and vowed to
- fight on.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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