Already, more than 75,000 women die each year as a result of unsafe abortion. The global gag rule disproportionately harms poor women for whom family planning services are out of reach without publicly funded programs. The global gag rule makes health care a privilege of the wealthy and makes women's private decisions about childbearing subject to the political and public domain. In addition, the global gag rule restricts free speech, is anti-family planning, and harms women and their families. We cannot allow others to say that the right to free speech and access to lifesaving health care ends at our border.
Rights have no borders.
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