Project Description: Although Ethiopia has one of the most progressive abortion laws in Africa, U.S. foreign policy plays a significant role in limiting access to safe abortion  services in Ethiopia, due to the impact of the Helms Amendment and confusion regarding the recent rescinding of the Global Gag Rule. The Leitner Clinic partnered with Ethiopian masters of law students and faculty at Addis Ababa Law School, with the guidance of the  international reproductive rights organization IPAS, to research and draft a report on this issue, which it distributed to members of Congress, USAID, and NGOs in Ethiopia and  the United States. Leitner Clinic students Tashmin Ali (`10), David Ashley (`10), and Ndidi Ngboeli (`10) and three Ethiopian students researched the topic throughout the semester and conducted joint fieldwork in Awassa and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in November 2009. The Clinic published and distributed the report, “Exporting Confusion: U.S. Foreign Policy as an Obstacle to the Implementation of Ethiopia’s Liberalized Abortion Law” in May 2010.