{"id":1471,"date":"2009-01-23T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2009-01-23T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:16:19","slug":"say-goodbye-to-the-global-gag-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/01\/23\/say-goodbye-to-the-global-gag-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Goodbye to the Global Gag Rule!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:gElEAPjPSD91uM:http:\/\/monetslilies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/11\/03\/gagged_med.jpg' alt='' class='left' \/>Oh, happy day! I was alerted by an email from NARAL Pro-Choice America announcing that President Obama has signed an executive order putting an end to the Global Gag Rule after eight arduous years. Yesterday, on the thirty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama put out the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters. I remain committed to protecting a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right to choose.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Global Gag Rule was first implemented by Reagan and banned tax-payer money from going to international family planning groups. Clinton ended it, Bush reinstated it, and now Obama has ended it again. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s gone for good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/01\/23\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry4749442.shtml\">CBS News <\/a>reports also on how an anti-choice group has used Obama&#8217;s image once again in an ad, just as his image was used in the Prop 8 battle, despite his opposition to their cause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackbirdwhistling.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/03\/playing-politics-with-womens-lives-disappointing-hearing-on-global-gag-rule\/\">Image Credit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, happy day! I was alerted by an email from NARAL Pro-Choice America announcing that President Obama has signed an executive order putting an end to the Global Gag Rule after eight arduous years. Yesterday, on the thirty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Obama put out the following statement: &#8220;On the 36th anniversary of Roe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2079],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reproductive-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}