Bag the gag rule. Poll indicates most Americans think global gag rule is wrong.

According to studies conducted by the Rand Corporation and the District of Columbia-based Center for Development and Population Activities conservative and liberal Americans alike overwhelmingly support foreign assistance to international family planning programs. In addition the 1998 poll shows that 92% of Americans believe that couples have the right to family planning and a slight majority support government funding of legal overseas abortion services. Despite such evidence members of the House Representative voted to restrict foreign family planning organizations that receive federal money from using their own non-US funds to provide abortion services overseas. To this effect foreign family planning organizations and other concerned agencies argued that such a restriction undermines the objectives of the US and effectively denies access to desperately needed support to millions of women worldwide. In particular organizations like the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy are lobbying lawmakers to strike the gag rule language from the final appropriations bill that will reach US President Clintons desk as well as to increase family planning funding levels. However Clinton has indicated a veto if congress does pass gag rule legislation for the second year in a row.