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From Kansas to Kenya: Ensuring Access to Safe Abortion For All

By Daniel Pellegrom, Pathfinder International

June 8, 2009 - 5:10pm

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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.

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Obama Repeals Global Gag Rule

By Daniel Pellegrom, Pathfinder International

January 23, 2009 - 2:51pm

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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 And now President Obama has repealed it.

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