Will Trump’s Global Attack on Family Planning Cause Side Effects?
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By Rachel Sullivan Robinson, The Conversation
President Donald Trump is leading an assault on family planning around the world.
Most recently, his administration cut off US contributions to the United Nations Population Fund, which provides and funds reproductive health services in poor countries. That follows his reinstatement of what's known as the “global gag rule,” the executive order enacted by all Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan barring foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive US funding from even mentioning abortion.
But Trump wants to go even further than his GOP predecessors by slashing spending on global health efforts funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Deeper family planning retrenchment wo...