Family Planning Clinics: Vote on a Republican-sponsored proposal that would prohibit clinics that receive Federal money from performing abortions on minors unless a parent is notified 48 hours in advance.

Similarly, abortion rights activists were cautious in their praise of Judge Breyer, who found to be unconstitutional the "gag rule" that prohibited federally financed clinics from counseling women on abortion.

The original proposals were widely viewed as prohibiting clinics from using their own funds to help women gain access to abortion.

George Bush's determination to prohibit clinics from mentioning abortion could result in more unintended pregnancies and more abortions.

Abortion Counseling Gains The House voted to bar enforcement of a Federal rule prohibiting Government-financed clinics from giving patients advice on abortion.

The Constitutional Court ruled that a Bavarian law prohibiting such clinics was detrimental to women's health by forcing them to travel to get an abortion.

The Supreme Court case did not deal with performing or providing abortions; it concerned only the legitimacy of a regulation prohibiting clinics from counseling, referring or discussion abortion.

For 18 years successive Administrations read the law as prohibiting clinics that performed abortions but not as restricting what doctors could say.

The court also held that prohibiting clinics or doctors from advocating or promoting abortion violated First Amendment rights to free speech.

Local response had been bitterly divided over the regulations, which prohibited clinics receiving Federal funding from offering counseling on abortions or referring or steering clients to abortions.