wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/11/2008
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Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are indicating that “Obama will reverse U.S. family planning and AIDS prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education.”
The Obama reversal is a return to an approach that is based on ...
feministing.com - 11/11/2008
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feministing.com —
Ann mentioned in the Weekly Feminist Reader that
President Elect Barack Obama's transition team has compiled a...
list of Bush administration actions that can be undone quickly - and that the Global Gag Rule is one of them . ...The new president is ...
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Buh-bye Global Gag Rule!
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Gag me not
Corrente —
A consummation devoutly to be wished: reports that Obama will end the Global Gag Rule which, by suppressing information about and access to condoms, condemns people to die.
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Obama makes historic White House visit —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George W. Bush, a strikingly symbolic moment in the transition of power.
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