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all try to chip in any way we can.
After the attack
on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers offered their talents and
services to the relief effort. Emergency workers, construction workers,
and other men with the fortitude helped recover what would too often
turn out to be dead bodies and human body parts from the rubble.
Churches opened their doors for people who wanted to pray and to
residents of lower Manhattan displaced by the attack. Restaurants
and delis throughout the city provided free food to rescue workers.
And Planned
Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) has been providing New York
City women with "complete reproductive health care… free
of cost." Services include birth control, emergency contraception,
and abortion.
The idea isn't
completely original. For years, the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) has turned natural disasters and wars into opportunities
to end more lives, passing out "reproductive health kits"
in refugee camps and among victims of tragedy.
Too bad they're
just answering one tragedy with another.
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