We the people ask that The Helms Amendment is removed: Pushed through in 1973 by noted racist Senator Jesse Helms as he rode the wave of political backlash to the Roe v. Wade decision the same year, the amendment states only that "No foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions." Without that foreign assistance, 21.6 million women experience an unsafe abortion each year. 47,000 of those women die, because of the lack of funding towards womens health and family planning. The numbers are rising every year.
The Helms Amendment is a dinosaur, written and pushed through during the stone age of American Politics and needs to be gone so that America and the world can go forward.
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