In the middle of a global pandemic, the Trump administration is trying to make it harder for people to get the reproductive health care they need.
show that 121 million women face an unintended pregnancy every year; that means almost half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended. And more than 60 percent of all unintended pregnancies end in abortion.., our team is continuing to report through this global health crisis—doing what we can to keep you informed and up-to-date on some of the most underreported issues of this pandemic. —we can’t do it without you.
take place every year in unsafe conditions. This results in an estimated annual 23,000 preventable pregnancy-related deaths. that document how harmful the policy is, there is no evidence that the global gag rule has had any positive impacts.last month admitted that people are being deprived of health care because of this bad policy.
Furthermore, the report also clearly showed that the global gag rule’s harm extends well beyond family planning programs—its original target—to a whole range of additional health programs, impacting delivery of health care “including for HIV/AIDS, voluntary family planning/reproductive health, tuberculosis, and nutrition programming.”documenting some of the harms the early stages of the Trump administration’s global gag rule have inflicted on family planning services in Uganda.
In April, Guttmacher partners published a study documenting the harms the Trump administration’s global gag rule have inflicted on family planning services in Uganda.One of the most important parts of that study is that it also suggests rapid organizational responses and emergency stopgap funding from foreign governments likely mitigated the impact of the global gag rule on the ground. Unfortunately, these interventions may not be sustainable over the long term.
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