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Senate Defies Bush on Foreign Family Planning Aid
5 April 2005
By Vicki Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a collision course with President Bush, the Senate voted on Tuesday to repeal the ban he imposed to prevent international family planning organizations that engage in abortion-related activities from receiving U.S. foreign aid funds.
Bush threatened to veto a two-year $34 billion bill authorizing State Department and foreign aid programs if it tried to override the policy that bars U.S. funds going to nongovernmental organizations that give counseling or referrals on abortions, or lobby against other governments' restrictive abortion laws.
...Backers of Bush's policy said taxpayers do not want their funds used to fund abortions overseas.
But critics dubbed it the "global gag rule," saying it kept the world's poorest women from getting all of the family planning information they needed and forced more women and girls, including victims of rape and incest, into dangerous illegal abortions.
Copyright 2005 Reuters Ltd.
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category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 6 April 2005
Global : United States
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