Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family-planning program in 1967, the regulations stated that "no project funds shall be expended for any surgical procedures intended to result in sterilization or to cause abortions." To help poor people prevent unwanted births, the ban on funds for voluntary sterilization was quietly dropped in 1971-the OEO financed some 16,000 of them last year-but no rules were ever promulgated. A set of guidelines was drafted and printed, barring sterilization of anyone who did not have "the legal capacity to himself consent to the procedure," but after an obscure controversy within the Administration, the guidelines were sent...
Frank Michelman, professor of Law and co-chairman of the CLE, said Wednesday that the Center's fate depends on whether OEO continues to fund it directly...
...lose funding. He added, however, that he does not think it is in "immediate danger of losing funds." The CLE was founded in 1969 as a joint project of the schools of Law and of Education. Its original emphasis was on research, but in March 1970, when OEO funding began, the Center started to concentrate more on litigation, Flannery said...
...OEO indicated that they wanted a more activist role for their money," he said...
...Today, OEO supplies 80 per cent of the Center's funding. The rest comes from Harvard...