Global Gag Rule Archives

Major Study Finds that the Global Gag Rule Significantly Increases Abortion Rates

In a first-ever study of its kind, public health researchers have found that prohibiting U.S. aid to any organization that performs or provides counseling on abortion actually increases abortions – and not just by a little. According to a new...

It’s Official: ALL US Health Assistance–from Measles to Malaria– is caught up in US abortion politics

One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to re-instate the “Global Gag Rule.” This is a rule that has been imposed by Republican presidents since the 1980s and stipulates that no US funding for global reproductive health care...

Trump’s New “Global Gag Rule” is Much, Much More Far Reaching than George W. Bush’s Policy

President Trump yesterday signed a presidential memorandum re-instating the Global Gag Rule. For most of the day yesterday the actual text of the memorandum was not released so much of the media coverage — including our own — was based...

This One Paragraph Shows How Harmful the Global Gag Rule is to Fighting HIV/AIDS and Preventing Abortion

As expected, Donald Trump has re-instated a US government policy known at the “Global Gag Rule.” This is a restriction that bans NGOs from receiving funding from the American government if those NGOs provide abortion services, counsel patients that abortion...

Will President Donald Trump eliminate access to healthcare for some of the poorest women on the planet?

One of the first foreign policy moves of President elect Donald Trump may be to eliminate access to healthcare for some of the poorest women on the planet. If past is precedent, with the stroke of a pen on January...

What Supporting the Global Gag Rule Means…in Theory and Practice

Why opposing international family planning is so dangerous to so many thousands of women around the world.

Major Study Finds that the Global Gag Rule Significantly Increases Abortion Rates

It’s Official: ALL US Health Assistance–from Measles to Malaria– is caught up in US abortion politics

Trump’s New “Global Gag Rule” is Much, Much More Far Reaching than George W. Bush’s Policy

This One Paragraph Shows How Harmful the Global Gag Rule is to Fighting HIV/AIDS and Preventing Abortion

Will President Donald Trump eliminate access to healthcare for some of the poorest women on the planet?

What Supporting the Global Gag Rule Means…in Theory and Practice

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations