CBS Evening News - 1991-05-24
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[0:02] What it was like in the cockpit of an
[0:04] American F-16 fighter shot down over
[0:06] Iraq. An emotionally stunned and
[0:09] politically shaken India mourns Gandhi.
[0:14] This is the CBS Evening News. Connie
[0:17] Chun sitting in tonight for Dan Rather.
[0:19] Good evening. Abortion rights supporters
[0:21] are vowing to find a way around
[0:23] yesterday's Supreme Court decision.
[0:25] Family planning clinics say they will
[0:27] give up millions of dollars in federal
[0:29] money rather than give up abortion
[0:31] counseling. And as law correspondent
[0:33] Rita Braver reports, they are also
[0:35] appealing to Congress for help.
[0:38] >> Raise their children.
[0:39] >> In New York, abortion rights activists
[0:42] took to the streets today. In
[0:44] Washington, they took to the conference
[0:45] table.
[0:46] >> This is a national
[0:49] uh emergency in a sense uh that we're in
[0:51] at the moment. plotting strategy to undo
[0:54] yesterday's Supreme Court decision that
[0:56] allows the Bush administration to ban
[0:58] federally funded family planning clinics
[1:01] from giving abortion advice.
[1:03] >> We're getting hundreds of calls this
[1:05] morning alone from our members.
[1:07] >> This is now a congressional issue. This
[1:09] is where issues be. We have to overturn
[1:13] that decision through congressional
[1:15] legislative action.
[1:16] >> Congressman Ron Weiden is sponsoring a
[1:18] bill to do just that. I believe that
[1:22] there is going to be such a showing of
[1:24] support in the Congress that this may
[1:27] well be the legislation uh that could
[1:30] override a veto by the president.
[1:33] >> My name is Susan and I'm going to be um
[1:36] looking at all your medical history.
[1:38] >> But with the court's decision no