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And Obama Keeps On Keeping Promises : Ends Global Gag Rule
11:16 am By Maegan La Mala · Health|Politics|Women · Comments Off
25 Jan 2009On Friday, President Obama signed an executive order ending the Global Gag Rule also known as the “Mexico City policy,”. Put in place originally by President Ronald Reagan and reinstated by George W. Bush, the policy prohibited U.S. money from funding international family planning groups offered abortions or even offered information about abortions because heaven forbid women have information about all the options available to them over their own bodies.
Via / CNN
Obama Plans and Hopes : End of Global Gag Rule
9:45 am By Maegan La Mala · Politics|US Presidential Race 2008|Women · Comments Off
12 Nov 2008
While ICE raids cast a shadow on the themes of hope and change, President Elect Obama has begun to make a list of Bush initiatives he wants to overturn once he takes his place inside the Oval Office. Among them is what is known as the Global Gag Rule.
The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.
“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”
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