President Obama on Friday began dismantling his predecessor’s broad and damaging assault on women’s reproductive health and freedom. Bush imposed on international family planning groups and began trying to restore financing to the United Nations Population Fund. It barred any health care provider receiving American family planning assistance from counseling women on abortion, engaging in political speech on abortion or providing abortions, even with its own money. Bush repeatedly blocked money approved by Congress to advance poor women’s reproductive health, reduce infant mortality, end sexual trafficking and prevent the spread of H. read more

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