I love me some British folks today!
The UK is defying the U.S. global gag rule; the Department for International Development will contribute £3m over two years for safe abortion services in developing countries.
This announcement comes on the same day that The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) releases their report, Death and Denial: Unsafe Abortion and Poverty.
"I think the UK is being very brave and very progressive in making this commitment," said Steven Sinding, director general of the IPPF. "We're deeply grateful for this gesture not only financially but also politically."Tens of thousands of women who depend on our services are not able to get them. We're committed to the expansion of safe abortion because in any society no matter how efficiently contraception is made available there will be unplanned and unwanted pregnancies."
Death and Denial reports that approximately 19 million women will undergo unsafe abortions this year. 70,000 of these women will die.
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As a Brit I say it's about damn time that the Blair government pried itself away from the Bush government's c**k up its ass and started acting like a Labour government.
Another Brit: notice even our own newspapers are thinking of us as ruled by the US - surely we could only defy the US if they could tell us what to do...