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The short explanation of this alert was:
Last week, President Bush cut off funding to organizations providing reproductive health care to refugees, denying basic health services to women who have upended their entire lives fleeing their countries to escape the chaos and danger of civil wars and conflicts. In a memorandum issued in the quiet of the Friday before Labor Day, Bush expanded the global gag rule to prohibit foreign organizations that use their own, non-U.S. money to perform, counsel, refer, or advocate safe abortion services from receiving U.S. family planning assistance administered by the State Department. (Until now, the global gag rule has only applied to family planning programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In effect, the global gag rule uses the power of the purse to dictate what services and information health care providers in other countries can offer their clients based on U.S. anti-choice extremists’ ideological views.
Please send a letter of concern to your Senators and Representative – unless they know their constituents care about reproductive freedom everywhere, not just in the U.S., retrograde policies like the global gag rule will continue to inflict harm on women around the world.
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