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- <title>
- Apr. 12, 1993: Changing Course On Abortion
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 12, 1993 The Info Highway
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Changing Course On Abortion
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- <body>
- <p>Clinton continues his push to reverse the government's
- restrictive policies
- </p>
- <p> President Clinton may have weaseled on some of his campaign
- promises, but not his pledge to liberalize Washington's
- attitude toward abortion. Last week the White House unveiled two
- more proposals. One would undo the Hyde amendment, the
- 16-year-old ban on federal financing of abortions for poor women
- through Medicaid; the other would permit federal aid to
- international population-control groups that provide or pay for
- abortions.
- </p>
- <p> Pro-choicers praised the Administration for aiming to
- ensure that all women, rich and poor, have the same reproductive
- options, and for getting serious about global overpopulation.
- Opponents, who will fight the proposals in Congress, accused
- Clinton of forcing many taxpayers to help pay for what they
- believe is murder. Both measures could become flash points in
- a dispute that is sparking increasing violence. Just three weeks
- after a doctor who performed abortions was gunned down in
- Florida, an abortion clinic in Montana was set ablaze.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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