Get ready for Trump’s executive order onslaught
International abortion rights advocates worry that Trump will further extend the so-called global gag rule to organizations receiving any type of U.S. foreign assistance, including humanitarian aid, as the Heritage Foundation recommended in its Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term.
Project 2025 also recommended the policy be extended to U.S. organizations, other governments and public international organizations, which have been exempt in the past.
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How the Trump admin’s attacks on abortion could devastate health care access globally
The ripple effects were greatly felt internationally. Health clinics in Ethiopia for teenagers, once supported by U.S. funding, shut down. An effort to include HIV testing in family planning in Kenya fell apart. In 2021, the Biden administration rescinded the rule, like the Clinton and Obama administrations did previously. But as the world gears up for a second Trump presidency, reproductive rights advocates around the world are preparing for even more severe impacts. Not only do they expect the Global Gag Rule to be reinstated, which has largely been the case under Republican presidents since 1984, but they also expect more expansions to occur.
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