Today, Obama signed an order lifting a "Global Abortion Gag Rule", which was a ban on US Funding for international family planning groups that performed abortions or provided conselling.
"The International Planned Parenthood Federation estimates it lost about $100 million in U.S. funding in the past eight years, which it estimates could have prevented 36 million pregnancies and 15 million abortions. That does not include funding that was cut off to its affiliates, such as programs in Kenya and Ghana." - Washington Post
Lifting this ban could potentially restore millions of dollars for funding for health care programs.
Yay.
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