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Obama Lifts 'Gag Rule' on Family-Planning Groups

January 23, 2009

President Barack Obama quietly overturned the "global gag rule" Friday, allowing U.S. foreign-aid dollars to flow again to international family-planning programs that offer abortion or advocate for abortion rights.

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