“Destruction, consolidation and creation,” is how Neil Datta, executive director at the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, characterises the Trump administration’s modus operandi.
If the shutdown of USAID is the destruction, and new bilateral agreements are consolidation, the “creation” phase will see a new system of services that offer alternatives to established sexual and reproductive health facilities.
Examples that already exist include crisis pregnancy centres that try to dissuade women from accessing abortion care; abstinence-based education programmes instead of comprehensive sexuality education; and natural family planning clinics as a substitute for modern contraception.
Read more at The Guardian