Uk steps up for women
The UK is to give £3m to organisations denied US aid for providing safe abortions in developing countries.
...The World Health Organisation estimates backstreet abortionists cause 70,000 "agonising" deaths every year. But to receive US aid, health clinics must pledge neither to provide abortion services nor advise women to have one.
Since US President George W Bush imposed this so-called "global gag" rule in 2001, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) has had to close dozens of clinics.
But with Britain's £3m it will set up the Global Safe Abortion Programme to improve access to safe abortion services and "support other partners that have had to cut back on reproductive health services because of the impact of the gag rule".
posted by Hazel Stone at 12:12 PM
2 Comments:
Excellent! That does a couple of things at once that make me one happy camper. Safe abortions and a big "FUCK YOU!" to the US in general and George in specific.
indeed.
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