The Vallejo clinic still offers the pregnancy tests, contraceptive counseling and abortions that have made up the bulk of its practice.

It's a fair bet that with better contraceptive counseling, most would not have had to do so.

Basic health-care activities include contraceptive counseling and supply, nutrition education and supplementation, as well as pre-school activities.

But America is reluctant to give adolescents easy access to contraceptive counseling - and also determined to bar access to abortion.

Reproductive Health Care: STD diagnosis and treatment, contraceptive counseling, gynecological care, and prenatal care.

The regulations would also impose heavy burdens on agencies that offer contraceptive counseling under Federal grants and run privately funded abortion clinics as well.

The committee also rejected an attempt to defend contraceptive counseling in school-based clinics.

Although neither birth-control products nor abortions will be offered, contraceptive counseling will be available.