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1Ungagging Women's Human Rights 2 Citations Of the many crises President Barack Obama faces, few are more urgent than preventing the needless deaths of half a million people this year. This is the number of women who die annually from a lack of basic reproductive health services. Unlike the global recession, climate change, and other disasters compounded by George W. Bush, the crisis of maternal mortality is easily resolved. Last week, Obama took an important first step by rescinding the "global gag rule." Formally known as the Mexic, technorati.com
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Obama Administration Likely To Review UMass Scientist?s Bid To Grow Marijuana 1 Citation Days before President Bush left office in January, his administration fired a parting shot at Professor Lyle Craker?s eight-year quest to cultivate marijuana for medical research by abruptly denying him a federal license despite a nearly two-year old Drug Enforcement Administration law judge?s recommendation that he receive one. But the new administration led by President Obama, who has publicly backed the use of marijuana for medical purposes to stave off pain, might reverse the decision and, technorati.com
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WHM #21: How to Reverse That "Perverse Cosmic Myopia" 1 Citation Guest blog today by Jane Roberts, cofounder 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund and author of the book ?34 Million Friends of the Women of the World?. Though written in present and future tense terms, the post reminds us that we can rewrite the history of women's global economic and reproductive subjugation. The term PERVERSE COSMIC MYOPIA (PCM) was used by David Brooks in a New York Times column on March 20, 2009 which intimated that the world economic and financ, technorati.com
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Australian abortion aid ban lifted 1 Citation Finally Australia has seen sense with a removal of the ban preventing NGO?s from accessing Australian aid monies if they had terminantions as part of their services. ABC Online reports that Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has been reviewing the rules and has decided to overturn the ban. Mr Smith says the change will mean women in developing countries will have the same options as those in Australia, if local laws allow terminations. But he says Australian aid funding will s, technorati.com
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The Down and Dirty Politics of Sex 1 Citation For the President and Congress to achieve solid reproductive health care policy as a part of health care reform, the Obama administration will need to sideline a few of the professional wrestlers and sports announcers in the abortion rights contest. The ongoing face-off between the ?Medical Right? and my pro-choice colleagues over access to contraception, comprehensive sex education, and legal access to abortion provides a dramatized competition that does not reflect the real lives of Ame, technorati.com
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Australian version of the global gag rule done away with 1 Citation One of the first things Barack Obama did after taking office was repeal the Global gag rule , which, as described here , ?prohibits US family planning assistance to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion-related information or services, even if these services are legal in their own countries and are funded with their own money. The rule prevents NGOs from even participating in public debates or speaking out on issues concerning abortion.?. Courtesy of Brian Harrad, technorati.com
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1 Citation Four Actions - Gaza, Gitmo, Pentagon, Gag Rule Actionable Resistance http://www.relaywave.com/pingRelayWave.php, technorati.com
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For Kenyan Women, Repeal of the Global Gag Rule Means Safety and Health 1 Citation It was a beautiful day, and everybody was excited...the man who was born of a Kenyan father had decided to lift the global gag rule. In doing so he had helped to save his sisters, mothers and aunts back in Africa. Tears streamed down so many eyes as it started sinking in that it was actually true: the gag rule had been lifted... I could not hold back tears as I stayed glued to the TV in Nairobi taking in the story. Even as President Obama entered his new position of power, he was quick to, technorati.com
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Quote of the Day: Rush Limbaugh Super-Sized Edition 1 Citation "The New Deal didn't work. Hoover was President through the depression for one year." Rush Limbaugh The Great Depression started in 1929. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933 . Limbaugh believes Bill Clinton made a law to fund abortions overseas. Population Action states: The global gag rule does not prohibit foreign NGOs from providing EC as part of the family planning and reproductive health services they offer. Foreign NGOs may provide EC counseling, dispense EC t, technorati.com
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This is What Winning an Election Will Do. 1 Citation Madam Chair, I am honored to be here today to express the renewed and deep commitment of the United States Government to the goals and aspirations of the ICPD Program of Action. President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, and Ambassador Rice as well as the United States Congress, have already acted strongly to support women?s and young people?s health, human rights, and empowerment; global partnership; and the wider development agenda embraced by the Program of Action. These opening lines, technorati.com
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