Just weeks after publication of a major report underscoring the benefits of robust U.S. investment in family planning worldwide, the GOP-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee voted in the early hours of the morning Friday to reinstate the Global Gag Rule (GGR) as part of the draft Fiscal Year 2012 State Department Authorizations Act, except this time with broader and more damaging implications. Jodi Jacobson writes here about just how much sense this makes (not.)     The bill is not about to get anywhere legislatively (and even if it did it would be redundant in the US,) but that doesn't mean the House  grandstanding has no impact.  "It's a one-house bill with a little collateral damage," said a very frustrated California Democrat, Howard Berman. "Because not everybody in the world knows it's a one-house bill, and it gets into their papers, and we just fan the flames of antipathy that are a main danger to our safety."     At the state level, the criminalization of abortion continues apace. Ohio recently joined Nebraska, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas and Oklahoma in banning abortions after 20 weeks with no exceptions for rape or incest and only very narrow exceptions for the health of the mother.     That combined with the crazed misogyny in the media makes for an icy climate for women considering abortion, or even seeking to talk about the topic after the fact, say the women of Exhale, an after-abortion counseling service that offers a "talkline"  for women -- all women - with an abortion experience.  Empathy is the best antidote to antipathy and the best route to empathy is talk says co-founder Aspen Baker. Talk may not heal all that ails us - and our politics - but it's certainly true that where abortion's concerned, we could do with less grandstanding about "gag rules" and more honest listening - and talk.     Baker dropped by the GRITtv studio last month with Natalia Koss-Vallejo who was featured in MTV's show, "No Easy Decision." The movement they would like to spark they call "pro-voice."