| 1997 |
D&X Ban
-- Passed by both houses with no exception for women's health, President
Clinton vetoes the most restrictive anti-abortion law ever passed by Congress.
Republicans mount campaign to override veto. |
| 1995 |
Congress has banned all abortions
at military hospitals and coverage of abortions by all federal health plans
(employees, Medicaid, Medicare, prisons and reservations.) |
| 1994 |
Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann
Nichols murdered, 5 shot at two Boston clinics. Jim
Barrett and Bayard Britton, M.D. murdered, June Barrett injured in
Pensacola, Florida. |
| 1993 |
David Gunn, M.D. murdered in Pensacola. |
| 1992 |
Casey
-- The High Court upheld a 24-hour waiting period, mandatory anti-abortion
counseling, parental consent for minors and record keeping by doctors.
Justice O'Connor created a new test for abortion law: undue burden. |
| 1990 |
Akron
-- Limiting young women's access, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that a state may require waiting periods and parental
notification, but allowed a judicial bypass. |
| 1989 |
Webster
-- The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a state law that human life begins
at conception; barring use of state hospitals for abortions; and requiring
viability tests. |
| 1980 |
Harris
v. McRae -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion funding
is not required for poor women. |
| 1977 |
Hyde Amendment
-- Congress voted to deny federal funding of abortions for poor women. |
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