11.   So she drove to the YWCA in Kansas City, Kan., where she counseled other women with HIV.

12.   Struggling to feed her children, Vanzant got a job counseling women on welfare, and almost by accident launched her writing career.

13.   The author, a film producer, counsels other women while recalling her own experiences.

14.   The drug agency requires that the women be counseled about the pill before using it.

15.   The health committee chairmen in the two houses reached a compromise that would have instead required doctors to counsel women about having HIV tests themselves.

16.   Under that hypothesis, doctors should begin counseling women even before pregnancy about possible diabetic risk factors, such as obesity, she said.

17.   Vondras, who is now administrator of St. Francis of Assisi in Newburgh, N.Y., said that he had counseled women who have had abortions.

18.   Within his church he has counseled women against abortion.

19.   Church sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say Pope John Paul II will soon send a letter to the bishops asking them to stop counseling women.

20.   Doctors who counsel women considering an abortion must inform them of all option, and may not recommend an abortion.