Saturday, 24 January 2009
Obama's good work: lifting the ban on abortion funds to foreign family planning agencies
This has long troubled me, that because of US restrictions on the use of the aid women in developing countries could neither receive information about the full range of their options nor pursue an abortion--the latter the more a problem because in some societies carrying the child to full term and giving it up would not be an option. Read more about it in the BBC article.
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Yes! This was a little known, little discussed ban but it had a huge impact. To think, with all that's going on in the world, lifting this ban was one of the first things Barack did. Can this really, finally be happening? A government we can be proud of?
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