The agency’s annual human rights report once again includes sections describing other countries’ handling of abortion, contraception and issues related to family planning. Trump administration officials had said the term reproductive rights was seen as loaded.
Thursday, now includes dedicated sections describing foreign countries’ methods of handling of contraception and abortion, information on maternal mortality, and other issues related to family planning and reproductive health.
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.“We reaffirm our full commitment to promote and protect the sexual and reproductive health of all individuals, recognizing the essential and transformative role they play in gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment around the world,” he told reporters.
Under Trump, State Dept. strikes reproductive rights, ‘Occupied Territories’ from human rights report In 2018 the State Department released a human rights report that made several substantive changes to those produced in the past. At the time, officials said the decision to remove a section devoted to reproductive rights would avoid using a term they said was seen as loaded.The section on reproductive rights were first introduced during the Obama administration under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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