The Global Gag Rule on international family planning prohibits any U.S. family planning aid from going to groups that provide abortions or speak out about the issue of abortion (even using their own private, non-U.S. funds). See the House vote 215-209: http://www.zpg.org it will only lead to more, illegal, abortions and is anti-democratic: How many women will dangerously and illegally be aborted of semi-viable, 2nd and 3rd trimester fetuses when a 7-week-after pill could have eliminated a one tenth of an inch accumulation of cells instead? | Source The Population Connection |