Attempt to replace lost dollars after 'global gag'
· 70,000 died last year in backstreet operations
Sarah Boseley
Monday February 6, 2006
The Guardian
· 70,000 died last year in backstreet operations
Sarah Boseley
Monday February 6, 2006
The Guardian
The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding.
Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered serious injuries.
Critics of America's aid policy say some might have lived if the US had not withdrawn funding from clinics that provide safe services - or that simply tell women where to find them.
Good on the Brits; Read On
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