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(LifeSiteNews) — The International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) is pleading for donations in order to assist thousands of women who will be “forced to give birth” in the upcoming months after its only abortion center in Gaza was inadvertently destroyed by Israeli forces on October 8.
The destruction of a @PFPPA clinic in #Gaza after an Israeli airstrike has left an already extremely vulnerable population with even fewer options to receive SRH care without #humanitarian aid.
Make an emergency gift here: https://t.co/LKcWGeSGOL pic.twitter.com/1fwxBABeor
— IPPF Global (@ippf) October 10, 2023
According to the Palestinian Family Planning and Protection Association (PFPPA) — an affiliate of the IPPF that was founded in 1964 — their sole abortion facility in the territory became “unusable” following “an Israeli airstrike to an adjacent building.”
“We don’t know what’s going to happen to these women and their newborn babies,” Ammal Awadallah, Executive Director of the PFPPA stated — notably using the term “newborn babies” instead of “fetuses.”
“Our options to provide referrals to hospitals are decreasing by the hour,” she lamented. “I can’t stress enough
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