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  Trump's ban on global abortion funding has led to more abortions

  CNN - By Nima Elbagir, Lillian Leposo, and Eliza Mackintosh Video by Alex Platt and Fabien Muhire Graphics by Kara Fox and Henrik Pettersson

  Nairobi, Kenya — Health worker Elizabeth Wanjiru was walking through the narrow streets of Kenya's largest slum earlier this year when she came across two schoolboys pointing at something in a muddy ditch. As she drew closer she saw it was the remains of an aborted fetus. Dumped elsewhere in Kibera, …

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  thelancet.com - V Bhargavi Rao, Tomas O Jensen, B Carolina Jimenez, Jo Robays, Estrella Lasry, Esther Sterk, Martin de Smet

  World Malaria Day 2018 is themed “Ready to beat malaria”, but circulated key talking points ignore an important group: pregnant women. Unpublished …

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  Nearly Half Of All Abortions Unsafe In Developing Countries

  NPR - Susan Brink

  Of the 56 million annual abortions performed around the world, nearly half, or 25 million, posed some threat to the health or life of the woman. The vast majority of unsafe abortions – 97 percent — were performed in developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. And about half of those …

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  The Fight To Kill The Global Gag Rule Forever May Have Gotten A Boost From Trump

  BuzzFeed - Jina Moore

  The Global HER Act is a long-shot — but supporters say its odds are improved by the harshness of the Trump policy it would repeal. President Donald Trump's expansion of an anti-abortion rule may be unexpectedly fueling a congressional fight to permanently overturn the ban, some lawmakers say. Trump …

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  Dear Kids: there’s homemade spaghetti sauce in the freezer! See you soon, Love Mom

  Medium - Doctors Without Borders

  I first joined Doctors Without Borders in 2011, when my baby girl was just one year old. As a mother of three it was a difficult decision to leave my …

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  Mar 17, 2017