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Insurance companies and health care providers have more flexibility to refuse to provide abortion services, information, or referrals under a provision in federal spending legislation passed at the end of last year. The provision withholds funds from government agencies that take punitive action against health care providers and insurers that don't provide abortion services or information. The measure is drawing the ire of abortion rights advocates. "What we're seeing here is our worst nightmare," Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, said in a statement. "This cynical measure has imminently dangerous implications for women because it places their lives in the hands of insurance companies and overzealous medical administrative staff." But ...