The Hill, May 22, 2012 by Julian Pecquet The Senate Appropriations subcommittee for State and Foreign Operations marks up its spending bill today. The full House committee passed its own $40.1 billion bill last week, setting up a clash with the Senate over anti-abortion language and funding for the United Nations Population Fund.
May 17, 2012
The Hill, May 17, 2012 by Erik Wasson The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a 2013 State Department funding bill that includes controversial anti-abortion language. The markup featured heated rhetoric between Democrats and Republicans, who sought to portray each other as hurting women, a crucial swing constituency in the fall elections. The State and […]
May 17, 2012
Huffington Post, May 17, 2012 by Valerie DeFillipo In one fell swoop, the Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to wipe out $39 million in funding for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. By voting to ban any U.S. contribution to UNFPA in FY2013, House Appropriators made a judgment call that […]
May 9, 2012
NARAL Blog for Choice, May 9, 2012 by Thomas Anti-choice politicians took control of the U.S. House of Representatives 16 months ago, and they’ve been waging a War on Women ever since. Defunding Planned Parenthood? Check. Rape audits? Check. An all-male panel attacking birth control? Yep, they did that, too. But now you might be […]
April 27, 2012
Guttmacher Institute, April 27, 2012 For more than 40 years, the United States—through its Agency for International Development (USAID)—has been a global leader in enhancing women’s access to contraceptive services in the world’s poorest countries. Empowering women with control over their own fertility yields benefits for them, their children and their families. It means fewer […]
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May 22, 2012
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