PSN signs letters opposing Global Gag Rule
21 April 2010
Source: PSN
On 20 April, PSN joined hundreds of organisations from around the world in signing letters opposing the US Global Gag Rule.
A young woman with AIDS in hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
UN Photo/Louise Gubb
The letters were sent to Representative Nita Lowey and Senator Patrick Leahy, calling on them to take action to prohibit the future imposition of the dangerous Global Gag Rule on health and family planning providers working overseas.
Referring to the harmful effects of the Global Gag Rule on family planning
providers and the women who rely on these services, the letter states;
"Now is the time to enact legislation that makes clear that no foreign health care provider can be disqualified from U.S. assistance simply because it provides a health care service with its own private funds that is legal
both within its own country and here in the United States, or because it engages in political debate about abortion policy within its own country. We encourage you to include it in the appropriations bill this year."
A copy of the letters is available in the Resources section of the website here.