And she supported a gag rule prohibiting doctors at federally funded clinics from counseling women about abortion or even informing them that abortion is a legal option. President Bush and anti-choice lawmakers in Congress do not. The President s budget deletes a provision that requires federal employee health benefit plans to offer coverage for prescription contraceptives. As a result, federal employees must pay for contraception out of their own pocket. He is likely to be joined in his fight against contraceptive coverage by some of Congress' most virulent abortion opponents.
More contraception means less unintended pregnancies which leads to fewer abortions.
Ambassador Raymond Flynn, of the anti-choice Catholic Alliance launched an attack on Dr. Dolores Cross, President of Morris Brown College in Atlanta. Flynn's insult came in a press release calling upon Seton Hall University to retract an honorary degree conferred upon Dr. Cross this year, merely because she holds the view that women have a constitutional right to reproductive choice. Mr. Flynn degraded himself and his organization with an outrageous attack that equated the recognition of a woman's constitutional right to reproductive choice with membership in the Ku Klux Klan, racial profiling and anti-Semitism. The President issued the anti-choice gag order on the first working day of his administration, but it was repealed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in the House. The House passed the gag rule after intense lobbying from the White House and Administration officials.