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BlancheSplanchnik

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12. the very FIRST thing PBO did when he took office in his first term

Thu Jan 23, 2014, 06:59 PM

Jan 2014

Was to abolish the Global Gag Rule that boosh had signed into law.

The rule prevented health clinics from caring for reproductive by emanding they never ever even mention abortion. Not up for even just discussion--otherwise their US aid $$$ would be yanked. That left clinics in other nations helpless---and women (and girls...like how girls are often married off to elderly husbands in impoverished nations) suffered horrible physical harm including fistulas and death.

Women are not dying because of untreatable diseases. They are dying because societies have yet to make the decision that their lives are worth saving.” Simply put, they die because they do not count.

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Laws against reproductive choice maim and kill millions of women around the world [View all] theHandpuppet Jan 2014 OP

Amen shenmue Jan 2014 #1

K&R PeaceNikki Jan 2014 #2

It's sad that you'd even have to post this here Bluenorthwest Jan 2014 #3

I never thought it would be necessary. Not here. theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #4

K&R for the truth! sheshe2 Jan 2014 #5

A short excerpt from the WHO document theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #6

Tell it, handpuppet! lapislzi Jan 2014 #7

k&r n/t RainDog Jan 2014 #8

I agree get the red out Jan 2014 #9

thats one really good/bad number PatrynXX Jan 2014 #10

k and r cinnabonbon Jan 2014 #11

the very FIRST thing PBO did when he took office in his first term BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2014 #12

K&R. tosh Jan 2014 #13

Nicely stated. AtheistCrusader Jan 2014 #14

It's the least I can do. theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #15

Kicking theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #16