[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 118 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 118

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
  restricting medical professionals from providing to women full and 
      accurate medical information on reproductive health options.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 1995

    Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Porter) submitted the following 
      resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to 
  restricting medical professionals from providing to women full and 
      accurate medical information on reproductive health options.

Whereas a past Federal policy, commonly known as the gag rule, restricted 
        medical professionals from counseling women about abortion as a 
        reproductive health option;
Whereas the gag rule interfered with the doctor-patient relationship and 
        prohibited the provision of information that medical professionals are 
        ethically and legally required to provide to their patients;
Whereas health problems stemming from diabetes, cancer, the human 
        immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV), hypertension, or 
        multiple sclerosis may be compounded by pregnancy and may seriously 
        threaten the life or health of the pregnant woman; and
Whereas restricting a medical professional's ability to communicate freely with 
        a woman about her reproductive heath options may jeopardize a woman's 
        life or health and violate ethical codes of conduct established for the 
        medical profession: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Federal Government should not establish any policy that restricts 
medical professionals from providing to women full and accurate medical 
information on their reproductive health options, including the 
provision of nondirective abortion counseling.
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