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Eleanor Smeal Quotes:

Life: b. July 30, 1939

Birthday: July 30

The gag rule must be eliminated, and it's just the gag rule, we're not talking now even about funding abortion. We're talking about, you know, counseling and speaking, so that's one. That can be reversed by an executive order. [George W.]Bush put it in the first day he got in office. We hope that [Barack] Obama takes it out. He had cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, even though Congress had appropriated. It is injured women who are the poorest of the poor.

- Eleanor Smeal

source: Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

topic: Cutting, Order, Talking, Poorest, Executive Orders, Gags

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