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Alaska and Hawaii had liberal laws. Laws in the other 12 states, which included Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina and Virginia, were very restrictive, typically allowing abortion only for pregnancies due to assault rape, incest, to save the life of the mother, and for severe fetal handicap. Illegal abortions were still frequent, though they became less frequent during the reign of the Comstock Law, which essentially banned birth control information and devices. In 1983, Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services is handed down by Supreme Court Allowing states to place increased restrictions on women's access to abortion. In 1991, Supreme Court upholds Title X gag rule (restriction on mentioning abortion in federally funded clinics) in Rust vs. Sullivan. Congress votes overwhelmingly to overturn gag rule, but override of President Bush's veto fails narrowly. In 1993, Newly inaugurated President Clinton reverses several anti-choice policies of Reagan & Bush administrations including gag rule. In 1993, anti-choice fanatic in Florida murders Dr. David Gunn. He is the first of abortion providers shot in the years after. In 1994, President Clinton signed Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) making it a federal crime to interfere with the provision of reproductive health care. In 1995 U.S. clinical trials of Mifepristone (RU486 - the French abortion pill). January 22nd is the 25th anniversary of legal abortion in America. January 29,1998 A police officer is killed and .
             a nurse is severely injured in a bomb blast outside a Birmingham clinic. In 2000, FDA approves .
             Death Before Life 5.
             Mifeprex (RU 486 - the French abortion pill) for use in U.S. As state by state try to .
             Increase abortion restrictions courts are over turning them before of one or another court case. Although no fetus should suffer before they are even born in the to the world, the purpose of the abortion is to correct a wrong that a woman has made.


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