gag rule
IPA: gˈægrˈuɫ
noun
- A rule that limits or forbids the consideration or discussion of a particular topic by members of a legislative or decision-making body.
Examples of "gag-rule" in Sentences
- Imposing a gag-rule on recipients of PEPFAR funding has made them less effective.
- On top of the gag-rule revival, House Republicans are also attacking family-planning funding overall, by trying to kill U.S. support for the United Nations Population Fund.
- Last term, in the so-called gag-rule case, the court upheld Reagan administration regulations barring all discussion of abortion in family-planning clinics receiving federal money.
- The incoming Obama White House is already getting ready to quickly reverse various George W. Bush policies by executive order: The ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, the prohibition against California settings its own emissions standards, and the global gag-rule that prevents international groups that receive federal funding from counseling women about abortion, among others.