Global Gag Rule Endangers Refugee Women's Lives
January 29, 2025
January 29, 2025
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 -- The Women's Refugee Commission issued the following news release:
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump reinstated the global gag rule, and drastically cut U.S. funding for critical global health services. The "global gag rule" prohibits U.S. funding to foreign organizations who provide, counsel, refer, or advocate for legal abortion services in their own countries--even when these activities are supported entirely by non-U.S. funds. Its reins . . .
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump reinstated the global gag rule, and drastically cut U.S. funding for critical global health services. The "global gag rule" prohibits U.S. funding to foreign organizations who provide, counsel, refer, or advocate for legal abortion services in their own countries--even when these activities are supported entirely by non-U.S. funds. Its reins . . .
