Daniel Pellegrom's blog

In Kenya a 2004 nationwide study showed that about 300,000 abortions are performed each year in the country, causing an estimated 20,000 women and girls to be hospitalized with dangerous complications. More than 40 percent of Kenya’s maternal mortality rate is due to unsafe abortions.

The global gag rule has never reduced abortion -- rather, it resulted in an attack on the delivery of family planning services that could help reduce abortion. And now President Obama has repealed it.