Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
More than 200 international healthcare advocacy and civil society organizations on Tuesday issued a call for a permanent elimination of the global gag rule, the executive branch guidance which Republican U.S. presidents have used for nearly four decades to cut off access to reproductive healthcare around the world.
expanded the restriction even further by conditioning aid for HIV/AIDS prevention, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, and other programs. 'In the last four years alone,' said Planned Parenthood Global in a video it released Monday for a global week of action to end the rule, 'it has affected healthcare programs across 64 countries. It's silenced many health centers and advocates and even forced them to shut down completely.
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