Help Site Map Text Only. Privacy Statement. This is historical material, "frozen in time. Abolished Restrictions on Medical Research and the Right to Choose As his first executive actions, President Clinton revoked the Gag Rule, which prohibited abortion counseling in clinics that receive federal funding to serve low-income patients. He also revoked restrictions on a woman's legal right to privately funded abortion services in military hospitals, restrictions on the import of RU, and restrictions on the award of international family planning grants the "Mexico City Policy".
The President also lifted the moratorium on federal funding for research involving fetal tissue, allowing progress on research into treatments for Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes and leukemia.
Helped States Take the First Steps Toward Welfare Reform President Clinton ordered the Federal Government to make it easier for states to receive waivers from government regulations in order to implement innovative welfare reform projects. Between and the signing of the Welfare Reform bill in , the Administration granted waivers to a record 43 states.
Those waivers laid the foundation of the new welfare reform law by strengthening work requirements, time-limiting assistance and demanding parental responsibility. The previous administration vetoed the bill twice.
Childhood Immunizations The President launched a major childhood immunization effort to increase the number of children who were being immunized.
