The Global Gag Rule: Life Sentence for the World's Poorest Women

[kpete]

The Global Gag Rule: Life Sentence for the World's Poorest Women

By Danielle Zielinski, Population Action International
April 4, 2011 - 6:30pm

A young woman tentatively walks through the door of a health clinic in rural Ethiopia. She’s terrified. She can barely say the word: pregnant. She doesn’t want a baby. She doesn’t know what to do.

For Desta Kebede, director of the Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE), the decision on whether to accept the conditions of the Global Gag Rule came down to one simple question.
Could he turn her away?

Kebede decided no. And so he instead turned down 35 percent of the funding for his organization in 2001 by refusing to abide by the Global Gag Rule.

"We have to give full respect for women's rights,” he said. “That's what we had at the back of our minds when we rejected the conditions (of the Gag Rule)."

more:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/04/04/what-global-rule-means-worlds-poorest-women

[WhiteTara]

1. Desta Kebede is a true human

who saw value in the person and not the dollar.