70,000 women DIED last year from unsafe abortions. clearly preaching abstinance wouldn't have helped them. ONLY LEGAL SAFE ABORTIONS, EDUCATION AND BIRTH CONTROL would have!
Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services · Attempt to replace lost dollars after 'global gag' · 70,000 died last year in backstreet operations
Sarah Boseley Monday February 6, 2006 The Guardian
The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding.
Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered serious injuries.
Critics of America's aid policy say some might have lived if the US had not withdrawn funding from clinics that provide safe services - or that simply tell women where to find them.
The "global gag" rule, as it has become known, was imposed by President George Bush in 2001. It requires any organisation applying for US funds to sign an undertaking not to counsel women on abortion - other than advising against it - or provide abortion services.
The UK will today become the founder donor of a fund set up specifically to attempt to replace the lost dollars and increase safe abortion services........
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Great post! I’m often concerned that because we are fighting so hard to keep abortion safe and legal in this country, we don’t pay enough attention to what our government is doing to cause death and destruction to women around the world by exporting our religious insanity. This is true of the gag rule on abortion as well as the abstinence crap we are passing out instead of condoms to women at risk for HIV. We should be screaming louder in support of our sisters in Africa, because we’re next and Great Britain will most likely not be willing or able to come to our rescue.
Another reminder of the street level effects of Bushcheney reproductive rights clusterfuckbombs: How can we kill thee? Let us count the ways, bushcheney seems to say.
to discourage condom use in hiv infected communities in the world is beyond freedom and dignity. it IS a death warrant
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