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ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
ASSISTANT SPEAKER CLARK, MENENDEZ INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD
The Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act would permanently require the State Department to report on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) introduced the Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act to direct the State Department to permanently include reviews on the status of reproductive rights in its annual human rights reports. Clark was joined by 122 House Members in reintroducing this legislation, and the Senate legislation has 22 cosponsors.
The Global Gag Rule’s Long Shadow in Pakistan. PUNJAB and SINDH PROVINCES, Pakistan On a Saturday in February, four women came to a reproductive health clinic in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, seeking to end their pregnancies. Three of the four were.
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When you think of International Women s Day, do you think of that as an excuse to celebrate taxpayer funded abortions abroad? Democrats do.
On Tuesday, Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky, Marilyn Strickland, Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier, Ayanna Pressley, Diana DeGette, and Norma Torres introduced HR 1670, or, the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act. Naturally, these abortion advocates tied funding abortions abroad using taxpayer dollars to celebrating International Women s Day, which was the day before.
The legislation in question would repeal the 1973 Helms Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funds from paying for abortions abroad.
The bill s name sums accurately sums up a Democratic talking point: Abortion is health care, health care is a human right, and it must be paid for, even abroad.
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