, who vowed to pursue an aggressive plan to further reproductive justice in the U.S. and around the world, is under pressure from abortion rights groups to work with Congress to repeal the Helms Amendment.
The difference here is that the Helms Amendment bans U.S funding for abortion procedures, while the gag rule bans any U.S. funding to any foreign non-governmental organizations that offer or even educate patients on abortion services with their own non-US money. “The global gag rule and the Helms Amendment have spread like a cancer through U.S. foreign assistance,” Zara Ahmed, associate director of federal issues at Guttmacher, said in a statement. “Now is the time for the White House and Congress to root out these twin malignant policies, not just from family planning and reproductive health funding, but from all U.S. global health initiatives.”
“While it is critical that President Biden rescinded the global gag rule last month, that was just a first step,” said Ahmed. “In order to truly support global progress, the White House and Congress must work together to permanently repeal the global gag rule through legislation, as well as repeal the Helms Amendment.”
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