Ms. Barber helped open the clinic, providing gynecological services, in 1972.
Ignoring the ban means cutting back on gynecological services desperately needed by poor women.
Inpatient gynecological services are to be phased out in May.
In 1904, the hospital offered general gynecological services, and started an out-patients department, also with home visits by its staff.
In 1994 the National Institute of Corrections said that American prison systems did not adequately provide gynecological services.
It is also expected to spur clinics that treat AIDS patients to include gynecological services.
Women would have direct access to routine obstetrical and gynecological services, without having to get approval in advance.
We even provide gynecological and urological services.
The home became a hospital in 1904, offering general gynecological services and an out-patient clinic.
The obstetrical and gynecological services are among the busiest in the hospital; about 3,000 babies are born there each year.