In 2018, the State Dept. released a human rights report that made substantive changes to those produced in the past. Officials said the decision to remove a section devoted to reproductive rights would avoid using a term they said was seen as loaded
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department has restored assessments of global reproductive rights to its annual human rights report, another move by the Biden administration to roll back decisions made under President Donald Trump.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said the addition to the annual report, first released without separate reproductive rights sections in March, reflected the Biden administration's focus on gender equality. The section on reproductive rights were first introduced during the Obama administration under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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