Series in Des Moines Register offers keen insights on impact of Global Gag Rule

"When Ethiopia's largest independent provider of family-planning services, the Family Guidance Dirb Wubet Abebe and her babyAssociation, refused to sign the gag rule, said Amare Bedada, its executive director, his organization lost one of its two major suppliers of contraceptives, particularly the long-acting Norplant, which is in high demand in Ethiopia. It also lost a quarter of its funding from International Planned Parenthood Federation, which also had to forfeit money from the U.S. AID." Read further -->> "Ethiopia: Women struggle, but strings bind U.S. help."