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Related: About this forumSenate Blocks Global Gag Rule (sadly, house bill reinstates, and cuts funding)
Senate Blocks Global Gag Rule
A bipartisan majority in the Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that repeals the anti-abortion Global Gag Rule and restores $600 million in funding for international family planning and reproductive health services. Republican Senator Mark Kirk (IL) and GOP Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Senate Democrats in passing the amendment. The amendment, proposed by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), was added to the 2016 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill and passed by a vote of 17-13.
GOP Senators Murkowski and Collins join Senate Dems to Block Global Gag Rule. Image via Getty Images
The Global Gag Rule bans US funding for family planning programs in developing countries that advocate for or provide information to women on a full range of options, including abortion, even if organizations use their own funds to do so. President Reagan first implemented the Global Gag rule through an executive order. It was later rescinded by President Clinton and then reinstated by President Bush. President Obama has since rescinded it, but the changing nature of the rule makes organizations afraid to accept U.S. assistance. Under the Global Gag Rule, abortion rates increased and many clinics were forced to close or reduce their services.
We thank Senators Shaheen, Leahy and their bipartisan allies on the Appropriations Committee for putting womens health over politics and rejecting anti-womens health provisions in the funding bill, said Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. The United States should redouble efforts to empower women and girls throughout the world, not stand in the way. That means investing more, not less, in womens health, making women and girls a top priority in foreign assistance, eliminating gender-based violence, and incorporating gender equity across the board in policymaking and international development.
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While the Senate version of the appropriations bill no longer has restrictions on family planning services, the House version, which was passed in the House Committee last month, contains proposals to cut international family planning assistance by $149 million (25 percent) and reinstate the Global Gag Rule. As a result of this bill, 79 organizations, including the Feminist Majority, have since signed an open statement to Congress, calling for a repeal of the Global Gag Rule.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/07/13/senate-blocks-global-gag-rule/
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Senate Blocks Global Gag Rule (sadly, house bill reinstates, and cuts funding) (Original Post)
niyad
Jul 2015
OP
Novara
(5,866 posts)1. They want to enslave all women world wide in unwanted pregnancy
It isn't enough to try and force American women into procreational slavery.
niyad
(113,775 posts)2. you are correct. their hatred is for all women, worldwide.
they seem to forget, or want us to forget, that there are really only two kinds of people--mothers and their children. I wonder how these fools think they got here.
(one of my friends tells the story of her son, then 16, who was squeamish, to say the least, about knowing his mother had sex. she asked him how he thought he had gotten there, and, without missing a beat, he replied, "fed-ex brought me"