The NGO PAI estimated that the extended gag rule would affect about 15 times more US funding than the gag rule had in the past.
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"The global gag rule has been associated with an increase in unsafe abortions and we expect that Trump's global gag rule will cost women their lives," she said.
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Opponents of the policy dubbed this the "domestic gag rule," as it mirrored a separate "global gag rule" that banned international family planning clinics receiving American aid money from performing or discussing abortion.
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In 1993, President Bill Clinton rescinded the global gag rule.
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An expanded global gag rule will dramatically worsen these statistics.
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He supports an injunction against Trump's Title X gag rule.
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Why is he talking about implementing a national gag rule?
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Pompeo's support of the "Global Gag Rule" is particularly troubling.
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"This isn't just about the domestic gag rule," Hasstedt said.
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But that's not what the gag rule does at all.
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We have our own gag rule, in its own way.
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Trump's global gag rule will only exacerbate this unnecessary tragedy.
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Like the gag rule, none of this comes as a surprise.
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In 1984, eleven years later, along came Reagan's global gag rule.
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Make no mistake about it: The global gag rule costs lives.
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Day 4: Reinstated The Global Gag Rule In his first week leading the country, President Trump signed an executive order reinstating the Reagan-era global gag rule that prohibits federal funding for international organizations offering abortions.
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Barack Obama lifted the gag rule in 2009 when he took office.
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Advertising Some called it a gag rule impinging on freedom of speech.
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But the global gag rule goes even further than the Helms Amendment.
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Congressional Democrats have been vocal in their opposition to a gag rule.
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Cato's suit is not the first attack on the SEC's gag rule.
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The domestic gag rule has exacerbated an already challenging contraceptive access landscape.
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The domestic gag rule will only make an already compromised situation worse.
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The global gag rule, also called the Mexico City policy, has been reinstated by every Republican president since Ronald Reagan established it in 1984, but a domestic gag rule was only in effect for one month, in 1992.
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Trump&aposs Global Gag Rule Is Already Closing Clinics WorldwideDonald Trump's reinstatement of the anti-abortion global gag rule, which bars non-governmental…Read more ReadBut because of these constant changes in the implementation of the gag rule, it was possible for the authors of the current study, published in the Lancet Thursday, to track how they affected women's overall access to reproductive health care services.
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Meanwhile, Gillibrand and O'Rourke say they would reverse the Trump Administration's gag rule.
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He would also repeal the Trump administration's gag rule on Title X. Sen.
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We had the Torture Memos and the continuation of the global gag rule.
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The gag rule isn't the only US policy that has this overall effect.
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READ: 6 states are rejecting federal money because of Trump's abortion 'gag rule.
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Under previous Republican administrations, the gag rule only applied to family planning funding.
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Some members of Congress are trying to fight the global gag rule. Sen.
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Read more: Clinics are facing an impossible choice because of Trump's 'gag rule.
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The Trump-Pence administration ignored this law and pushed the gag rule forward anyway.
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Trump reinstated the gag rule on his fourth day in office in January 2017.
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What happened: Trump reinstated the so-called Global Gag Rule with a presidential memorandum.
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The majority of Republicans in this country oppose policies like Trump's global gag rule.
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The global gag rule already denies US-funded organizations from participating in those coalitions.
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The Gag Rule was the House's response to a rising tide of antislavery petitions.
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This week's executive order reinstating the global gag rule will make that work much harder.
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Three days after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama rescinded the global gag rule.
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Past experience suggests that this "global gag rule" will lead to more abortions, not fewer.
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The gag rule bars federal funding for foreign NGOs that either provide or promote abortion.
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MSI refused to sign the gag rule, and lost about $80 million in U.S. aid.
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Clinics that do everything—including reproductive health—are becoming more rare under the gag rule.
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The Trump administration's gag rule rule is about controlling and punishing women — for being women.
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Trump had indicated that his first act would be to sign the global gag rule.
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"Trump's 'gag rule' would have jeopardized healthcare access to women across the country," Ferguson continued.
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Bringing back the global gag rule does more than just refuse to pay for abortions.
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Under Trump, however, about 103 times more funding will be impacted by the gag rule.
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The Trump administration's proposed domestic gag rule is an assault on the patient-provider relationship.
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The gag rule is unethical, dangerous, and we will not subject our patients to it.
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"No one should implement a gag rule on Americans speaking out for freedom," tweeted Schumer.
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However, Trump's iteration of the global gag rule is significantly broader, and significantly more harmful.
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Former President Barack Obama had lifted the gag rule in 2009 when he took office.
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This is Trump's global gag rule, and we do expect it to cost women their lives.
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President Bill Clinton later rescinded the gag rule, but President George W. Bush then reinstated it.
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The House of Representatives also passed a gag rule for the automatic tabling of abolitionist petitions.
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It's effects like these that cause abortions to increase rather than decrease under the gag rule.
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One of these reinstated the Mexico City Policy, better known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR).
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Reinstating and expanding the global gag rule is the first indication of how serious he is.
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The Trump administration's choice to extend the gag rule "sends a message," says Planned Parenthood's Adelman.
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The Gag Rule, and the blustering attempts to enforce it, made slaveowners look pathetic and malevolent.
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It should be no surprise that abortion and maternal mortality rates increase under the gag rule.
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If pharmacists violate the gag rule, they risk losing their contract with the pharmaceutical benefit manager.
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Like Republican presidents before him, President Trump reinstated the global gag rule early in his presidency.
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There's a so-called gag rule preventing mushers from making statements critical of the race or sponsors.
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" The move to ban the abortion talk, Planned Parenthood has claimed, would serve as a "gag rule.
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And 138 organizations across the country have declared their unified stance against the global gag rule specifically.
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Former President Reagan first issued the regulations, which Democrats describe as a "domestic gag rule," in 85033.
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Since its conception, Democratic presidents have historically repealed the global gag rule, while Republicans have revived it.
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Efforts to end the global gag rule have been met with some Republican support in the past.
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It's not yet clear exactly what form a domestic gag rule from the Trump administration would take.
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All of those people will now be poorer as a result of the new gag rule expansion.
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So the gag rule is affecting us the same, because we are part of this global partnership.
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Trump, as has every other Republican president since Reagan, reimposed the gag rule when he took office.
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Last October, NCLA filed a 40-page petition calling on the SEC to amend the gag rule.
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President Barack Obama's administration lifted the global gag rule, allowing much needed support for reproductive health services.
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All the failures, bureaucratic nightmares and -- yes -- increases in abortion rates will now follow the gag rule reinstatement.
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The reinstitution of the global gag rule is the latest salvo in the Republican assault on reproductive rights.
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The experiences of those who have lived under the Global Gag Rule demonstrate that this policy is destructive.
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Trump's Global Gag Rule also cuts off contraception access to women overseas, in the poorest nations on Earth.
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By limiting access to contraceptives, the global gag rule could set off a number of public health disasters.
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The impact of the silence under Trump's global gag rule will be greater than it was under Bush.
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Trump signed an executive order reinstating the gag rule on his fourth day in office in January 2017.
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If the Trump administration is serious about ending the HIV epidemic, they must stop the dangerous gag rule.
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It began with President Trump's first stroke of the pen reinstating and callously expanding the global gag rule.
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Instead, the gag rule tries to control how international organizations use their own funds, raised from other sources.
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But with the gag rule back in effect, large geographic areas may simply lose services, including birth control.
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The evidence is clear as to how the global gag rule has played out: abortion rates have increased.
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This is often because, under the gag rule, women are not given access to contraception or prenatal care.
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The global gag rule has been implemented on and off, depending on the administration in power, since 1985.
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It started three years ago, when he imposed his disgraceful global gag rule on American global health assistance.
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USA-ABORTION-RULING/ Trump 'gag rule' on abortion referral can be enforced, U.S. appeals court rules A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday said the Trump administration may enforce a rule labeled by critics as a "gag rule" that could deprive abortion providers of federal funding for family planning.
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In addition to repealing Hyde and codifying Roe, Gillibrand supports undoing the gag rule the Trump administration has imposed.
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This amounts to an abortion gag rule, restricting what Title X recipients can say about abortion to their patients.
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Planned Parenthood said the stipulation amounted to a "gag rule" on physicians and refused to comply with the changes.
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The congressional testimony that Pence heard ten years ago about the impact of the Global Gag Rule was compelling.
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In the best short-term scenario, the gag rule is once again struck down by the next presidential administration.
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The policy, also know as the "global gag rule," could be reinstated as early as Sunday, the report noted.
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The rule, which is also referred to as the "domestic gag rule," blocks providers from giving patients full information.
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The president on Friday is set to propose a new "gag rule" for health care organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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The gag rule is specifically designed to prevent reproductive health providers, like Planned Parenthood, from participating in the program.
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Now, President Trump and his ultraconservative allies are doing the same thing at home with a domestic gag rule.
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Americans, especially people of faith committed to social justice, should make their voices heard against this domestic gag rule.
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Democrats view this as a 'domestic gag rule' and could prohibit funding for its implementation through the Appropriations process.
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Often called the "global gag rule," it's led to clinic closures and reductions in crucial services around the world.
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S. funds, and it would prevent the deeply undemocratic violation of free speech that results from the gag rule.
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Our statistical research suggests that the domestic global gag rule is likely to result in more, not fewer, abortions.
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In one famous incident, he inquired whether the Gag Rule would prohibit him from presenting a petition by slaves.
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Critics say the "gag rule" would mostly affect communities of color, low-income people, the uninsured and rural residents.
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Because abortions don't stop happening just because we stop discussing them, the incidence of women seeking abortion under the gag rule usually increases, often with deadly consequences: In 2011, the World Health Organization published a report drawing a link between the global gag rule and a rise in abortions in sub-Saharan Africa.
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This is to counter the financial setback organizations would face were they to lose funding under the global gag rule.
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And in 2011, researchers from Stanford University published striking evidence that the global gag rule had, perversely, increased abortion rates.
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Wade, doing away with the gag rule and the Hyde Amendment and passing legislation in Congress to protect abortion rights.
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Becerra has already filed lawsuits against the Trump administration on other health care issues, including the "gag rule" on abortion.
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Under previous Republican presidents, the Gag Rule applied only to family planning funds (about $600 million under George W. Bush).
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The organization called it a "gag rule" that would roll back a requirement that medical professionals provide information about abortions.
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To people seldom affected by access to reproductive care, women getting more abortions under the gag rule might seem strange.
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According to the report, the gag rule has been in place under Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
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On Monday, Trump reinstated the so-called "global gag rule" that bans organizations receiving U.S. aid from speaking about abortion.
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In the wake of the gag rule, 20 of these mobile clinics in Madagascar and five in Uganda were shuttered.
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Anti-abortion advocates have long been pushing the Trump administration to implement a domestic version of the global gag rule.
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One example showcases the troubles with governing by executive order: the policy commonly referred to as the global "gag rule".
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President Trump went further: His administration expanded the gag rule to cover all health care funding, not just family planning.
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Research by Fordham University shows that the global gag rule drastically curtailed community-based H.I.V. testing and condom distribution programs.
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President John Quincy Adams, then a member of the House representing Massachusetts, became an outspoken critic of the Gag Rule.
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Critics say the changes are a "gag rule" that prevent providers from having honest discussions with their patients about abortion.
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"No one should implement a gag rule on Americans speaking out for freedom," Schumer said in a tweeted statement Monday.
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Every Republican president since Ronald Reagan has issued the order, which is often referred to as the global gag rule.
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Global health, human rights, LGBTQI rights and women's rights groups submitted comments documenting early harms of the global gag rule.
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The Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act — introduced with bipartisan support — would end the global gag rule for good.
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Historically, the Mexico City policy — which abortion rights advocates dub the "global gag rule" — cut off only family planning funds.
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He is also a co-sponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act and of legislation to repeal the global gag rule.
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A federal judge recently blocked this so-called Title X "gag rule," which was set to take effect on May 3.
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Then, we also take a look at how Trump's revival of the Global Gag Rule is impacting women around the world.
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The Helms Amendment already blocks US foreign aid from directly funding abortion overseas — but the global gag rule goes much farther.
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The last polls published before a pre-election gag rule came into effect on February 17th all implied a hung parliament.
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I've reported on the Global Gag Rule from Ghana, one of the countries hit hardest by Bush's version of the rule.
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On Monday, he reinstated the Global Gag Rule, a harmful policy that limits information on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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The global gag rule, also known as the "Mexico City Policy," was first put into effect by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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On Monday, Trump reinstated the so-called Global Gag Rule, which blocks international groups that provide abortion from receiving US aid.
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The Reagan administration issued a domestic gag rule in 703, but it was immediately challenged in court by reproductive health groups.
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The gag rule controls how foreign organizations and partners working on family planning policies use money they receive from other sources.
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And that's shrunk down by 100 because of the loss of the funding and the effects of the global gag rule.
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"Economic empowerment literally means nothing for women who die because of Ivanka and Donald Trump's global gag rule," Sippel told CNN.
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We've heard from our constituents and advocates around the world who are calling out the harms of the Global Gag Rule.
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And one of Mr. Trump's first acts as president was to widely expand the so-called global gag rule on abortion.
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Trump's global gag rule, which Republican presidents put into effect, means more unsafe abortions and suffering for women across the globe.
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The global gag rule, for instance, is associated with increases in the number of abortions that take place in other countries.
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"Trump's domestic gag rule harms women in more ways than one," Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY'S List, said in a statement.
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Known by critics as the "global gag" rule, Trump broadened its scope to include all global health assistance in his Jan.
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McShane said from the bench that the so-called "gag rule" would prevent doctors from doing their jobs, media reports said.
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Dr. Lubin-Johnson added that the loss of available services as well as the gag rule would hit Black women particularly hard.
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Thursday, she explained her opposition to the global gag rule in a Facebook post, stepping very carefully among perceived political landmines: ( function() {
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Also known as the Mexico City policy, the global gag rule was first enacted by the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s.
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On his first full day in office, Trump put in place the most expansive and life-threatening Global Gag Rule in history.
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Further expansion of the global gag rule will harm millions of people around the world and have consequences for generations to come.
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The Mexico City policy -- also known as the global gag rule -- cut aid for international non-governmental organizations promoting or performing abortions.
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Planned Parenthood said Monday its affiliates cannot ethically comply with the changes, which it called a "gag rule" on health care providers.
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"Trump's Global Gag Rule is cruel and unusual in that it massively expands an already harmful policy," said a statement from PAI.
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The gag rule hurts not just abortion access, not just contraception access, but other forms of health care as well, Rucks said.
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Physicians have also voiced opposition to a domestic gag rule.
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If this gag rule is enacted, it would be devastating for people seeking both abortion care and contraception services around the country.
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During past Republican administrations, the Global Gag Rule applied only to women's health organizations receiving USAID funding, totaling $544 million this year.
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Anti-abortion activists and the Trump administration see the reinstated and expanded Global Gag Rule as a trophy of their electoral success.
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You can call the administration's approach the Mexico City Policy or the Global Gag Rule, but please don't call it "pro-life."
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Previous Republican administrations limited the policy to family planning providers; the Trump administration extended the gag rule to all global health providers.
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Now, with the Trump administration's change, experts say the gag rule will apply to 15 times more funding than it used to.
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It has also imposed an expanded global gag rule preventing overseas clinics that receive American health aid from providing or discussing abortion.
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Mr. Trump immediately reinstated the "gag rule" denying federal funds to overseas organizations that include abortion as part of family planning services.
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Health care practitioners who violated the gag rule faced fines of up to $10,000 and the possible loss of their medical licenses.
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The White House proposed a gag rule to restrict family planning funding from clinics and hospitals that conduct or refer for abortion.
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Critics argue that the "gag rule" would affect low-income people, communities of color, those who are uninsured and rural residents the most.
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Reproductive health experts have referred to this change as a "gag rule" because it limits what providers can and cannot say to patients.
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The International Planned Parenthood Foundation said they could lose $100-million in U.S. funding now that the global gag rule has been reinstated.
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" The American Medical Association said in a statement the Trump administration is trying to impose a gag rule "for all intents and purposes.
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Then the administration introduced the so-called "domestic gag rule" which would ban providers that offer abortion from even applying for the grants.
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Since President Reagan first introduced the global gag rule in 1984, every Republican president has unilaterally reinstated this rule — and people have suffered.
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This year, the City of Baltimore challenged the Trump administration's "gag rule" banning recipients of Title X family planning funds from discussing abortion.
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During the fight over a congressional gag rule in 1841, she wrote a short statement on the right of women to petition Congress.
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And under the global gag rule — which the Trump administration not only reimposed but expanded — organizations addressing that issue have their hands tied.
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There is a proposed gag rule in the Trump administration's approach to federally funded family planning that would disproportionately impact low-income patients.
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In December, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton asked SEC Chair Jay Clayton about the gag rule during Clayton's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee.
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Probably around $600 million a year will have to be raised to make up for what is being lost through the gag rule.
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On Monday, President Trump reinstated the global gag rule, which strips all US funding from foreign aid groups that counsel patients on abortion.
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Countries around the world are planning to fund abortions blocked by Trump's gag rule Countries around the world are planning to fund abortions blocked by Trump's gag rule The Dutch government says it is taking up an initiative to fill the gap in funding for international abortion services following Donald Trump's executive order to reinstate the so-called Mexico City Policy.
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In 20173, the Congressional General Accountability Office concluded that the global gag rule, coupled with abstinence promotion, was impeding the global fight against HIV.
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He has also supported several anti-choice congressional measures, expanded the global gag rule, and tried to implement a domestic version of that policy.
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The duo fear their work will be undercut by the gag rule, while its poor implementation could result in a significant loss of life.
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One of the president's first actions was to reinstate the Global Gag Rule, which blocks international organizations that offer abortions from receiving federal funding.
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While most members saw the Global Gag Rule as a policy to be eviscerated, Mike Pence saw it as a policy to be emulated.
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The global gag rule is just one policy, and it would've been odd if it drove a bunch of news cycles during the campaign.
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Earlier this week Sida (the Swedish government's international development agency) announced they'd be freezing aid to organizations that comply with the global gag rule.
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One major family planning group, Marie Stopes International, has estimated the gag rule would deny some 1.7 million women globally access to its services.
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These restrictions, described as a "gag rule" by Democrats, would ban Title X grant recipients from promoting abortions, or giving patients referrals for abortions.
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This Action Plan must include overturning the Title X gag rule and re-investing in care for sexual health, including STD prevention and treatment.
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A day after Trump reinstated the global gag rule that banned federally funded groups from discussing abortion, Sandberg donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood.
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For a generously comprehensive list of the organizations that oppose the global gag rule, the Center for Reproductive Rights' coalition statement names 138 groups.
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Abortion is legal in Colombia and illegal in Madagascar, but the gag rule will be a blow to family planning services in both countries.
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President Trump's executive order reimposing and widening the "global gag rule" violates not only women's right to health but also their right to life.
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But largely overlooked in these responses to the domestic gag rule is that the current rules governing Title X grantees represent terrible public policy.
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Planned Parenthood argues that the administration's proposed ban on referring patients to an abortion provider amounts to a "gag rule" on the organization's physicians.
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The plan, released May 17, calls for codifying Roe in statute, repealing Hyde and the domestic gag rule, and guaranteeing private insurance coverage for abortion.
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Doctors and reproductive rights advocates call this a "gag rule" because healthcare providers would no longer be able to discuss abortion with their pregnant patients.
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Undo the Trump administration's gag rule, which prevents providers in the Title X program from informing women how to access abortion and from performing abortions.
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Protesters in New York City objecting to the Trump administration's expansion of the gag rule to domestic organizations receiving Title X funding earlier this February.
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One of Trump's first actions as president was to reinstate and expand the policy first created by President Reagan known as the global gag rule.
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Y.) and nearly 2628 other members of Congress introduced the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act to permanently repeal Trump's pernicious global gag rule.
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The gag rule bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, forcing them to accept the restriction or reject it and lose funding.
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Under Trump, the gag rule was expanded beyond family planning to funding for all global health assistance, including programs for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and immunizations.
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President Donald J. Trump's new proposed rule on Title X-supported programs is effectively a gag rule that will harm millions of women and families.
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In the shadow cast by the global gag rule, she says, unsafe abortions—a major contributor to women's health issues and maternal death—increase dramatically.
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In Mozambique, where first-trimester abortion has been legal since 2014, AMODEFA refused to sign the gag rule—and lost 803 percent of their budget.
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However, Trump's gag rule will cut off access to millions of patients who rely on Title X for critical preventative health services — including HIV screening.
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It would also block grantees from referring women for abortions or counseling them on abortion as an option, described as a "gag rule" by opponents.
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Critics of the policy call it the "global gag rule," and say it hurts vulnerable women worldwide who depend on aid groups for their healthcare.
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First the Global Gag Rule cut off family planning funding to any foreign nongovernmental organization that advocates, provides, refers, or even gives information about abortion.
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Cuts like these, layered on top of the Global Gag Rule and the defunding of UNFPA, would have devastating consequences for women and their families.
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President Donald Trump first announced the gag rule while speaking at a gala for the anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony's List in May 2018.
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"I urge Senators Blunt and Shelby, and Senate Republicans, to stop attacking women's health and include language that blocks the domestic gag rule," DeLauro said.
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We have battled against the Global Gag Rule and similar attempts to place unconstitutional restrictions on NGOs' ability to advocate on health issues for years.
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In March, Ferguson filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, asking a federal court to block the administration's "gag rule" before it went into effect.
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The fallacy of the Global Gag Rule is that by banning abortion or even mention of abortion as an option, this will actually stop abortion.
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If the Global Gag Rule stands, millions of women will lose access to contraception and the result will be more abortions in dirty, dangerous conditions.
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The Mexico City policy — or the global gag rule, as it's popularly known — essentially allows US presidents to fight the county's domestic abortion wars abroad.
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Abortion opponents said the Trump administration plan would not silence any family planning organization, and thus could not be regarded as a domestic gag rule.
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This country was built on the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and the domestic gag rule directly opposes those rights.
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Whether through executive or legislative action, it's time for the dangerous and harmful global gag rule to come to an end once and for all.
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When we have something, like the global gag rule, it doesn't allow for some of the nuances that are important for making those individual decisions.
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Ultimately, the Trump's global gag rule is a political gift to opponents of legal abortion that will hurt women, cost lives, and undermine American values.
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Nepal's doctors are committed to bringing maternal mortality down further, but President Trump's reintroduction of the global gag rule casts a shadow over their efforts.
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Now, the Trump administration is seemingly putting their ideology into action with a new domestic gag rule that's tantamount to a death sentence for women.
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"Reversing this global gag rule, we're removing eligibility restrictions that could unintentionally restrict access to vital, often life-saving services," Murkowski said in a statement.
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The Reagan-era policy, best known as the global gag rule, already blocks international organizations that offer or even discuss abortion care from receiving federal funding.
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The policy has been derided as a "gag rule" by Planned Parenthood, and it is likely to trigger lawsuits that could keep it from taking effect.
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Guarantee access to employer-covered contraceptive care and end the Trump administration's "gag rule," which cuts off funding for providers that offer abortions or abortion referrals.
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The global gag rule, which affects U.S. non-governmental organizations working abroad, is one that incoming presidents have used to signal their positions on abortion rights.
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The authors compared countries in sub-Saharan Africa where organizations affected by the gag rule were most commonly found to those where their presence was low.
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The gag rule during both Reagan and Bush´s administration was a barrier to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health in many parts of the Global South.
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Under the gag rule, many groups turned down U.S. aid, leaving them short of money for health services from cancer screenings to flu shots, advocates say.
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Given President Trump's recent inflammatory and inaccurate claims about abortion, it is expected that the administration will appeal to have its Title X gag rule upheld.
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Just like with the old Gag Rule, no discussion can be had over guns in Congress and no legislation, no matter how reasonable, can be considered.
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Right after he took office, Obama repealed the "global gag rule," which prohibits providers from even talking about abortion if they want to receive US funding.
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Under the gag rule, regular access to contraceptives becomes patchy, and the number of unwanted pregnancies increases, leading to more unsafe abortions and more women dying.
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But in the last year of the Bush administration's gag rule, that number was estimated as closer to 68,000, according to a 2008 World Bank report.
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But after the Global Gag Rule forced the clinic to relinquish U.S. funding, the number of patients tested plummeted more than 88 percent to just 85033.
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That's because, shortly after Trump was elected, he activated the "global gag rule" (GGR), banning US funding of foreign NGOs that provide abortion counseling or referrals.
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Known by reproductive health advocates as the "domestic gag rule," it bars recipients of Title X funding from performing abortions or making referrals for the procedure.
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Mr. Trump's global gag rule threatens to make that reality even worse by effectively restricting American aid to any overseas organization that even mentions abortion care.
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" Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, shot back Friday, calling the rule a "gag rule" and describing it as "unconscionable and unethical.
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Clinics that even discussed abortion would lose their funding for contraception and reproductive health care, giving rise to the policy's other name, the global gag rule.
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By cutting off family-planning funds to reproductive health care providers, the gag rule eliminated contraceptive and maternal health services to countless women around the world.
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Trump reinstated the so-called Mexico City Policy, or "global gag rule," which bars international nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions from receiving US governmental funding.
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Health care: Ensure funding for Planned Parenthood and Title X. Eliminate Trump's gag rule on Title IX. Require insurance companies to cover hormone therapy for transgender patients.
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The gag rule that the Trump administration is putting out would force doctors and nurses to censor what we can say to our patients about reproductive health.
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Not satisfied with President Trump's ill-conceived decision to inflict an expanded global gag rule overseas, Pence is attempting to usher in the harmful policy at home.
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Within days of his presidency, President Trump reinstated the global so-called "gag rule," requiring foreign NGOs receiving U.S. support promise not to perform or promote abortions.
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He has made it easier for employers to refuse to include birth control in their health-care plans and reinstated the "global gag rule" on abortion counselling.
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The gag rule, which the Department of Health and Human Services is now collecting public comment on, is little more than an extension of the Hyde amendment.
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A domestic gag rule, if it is released, would be part of a larger drive by the Trump administration to restrict access to comprehensive reproductive health care.
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Importantly, the report finds that medically unnecessary regulations, such as the Trump administration's proposed "domestic gag rule," negatively impact the quality of abortion care and harm women.
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Passing the Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act would end Trump's global gag rule and would prevent a future president from unilaterally imposing this terrible policy.
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In January, Trump reinstated the "Mexico City Policy," also known as the global gag rule, which literally bars family planning providers from mentioning abortion in their work.
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First came the "global gag rule," ending funding to overseas health aid groups linked in some way to abortion, including counseling that mentions it as an option.
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By reinstating the global gag rule, organizations that receive U.S. global health funding cannot use their own money to so much as even counsel on legal abortions.
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Providers in clinics who complied with the global gag rule were unable to give their clients accurate medical information, resulting in women losing trust in their providers.
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In addition to increasing unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, Trump's gag rule is also a profound betrayal of American values, violating principles of free speech and democracy.
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One opinion she wrote struck down the so-called gag rule, a federal regulation that barred doctors who accepted federal payments from discussing abortion with their patients.
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President Trump's invocation of the "gag rule," which eliminates funding for any clinic that mentions abortion as a potential treatment, has forced the closing of these clinics.
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Critics of the new rules, like Wen, say they amount to a "domestic gag rule" that stops providers from being able to speak honestly with their patients.
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Last Thursday, peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet published a study confirming what reproductive health experts have long suspected: Surveying 20183 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 22018 and 280 (a time period during which the gag rule was reinstated by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones), the countries relying heavily on U.S. aid saw much higher rates of abortion—220 percent more—when the gag rule was in place.
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The one where Trump reinstated the "global gag rule" or Mexico City Policy, which stops federal aid to foreign organizations that provide or even give information about abortion.
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The three-judge panel also argued that the public interest would be "irreparably harmed" if the nationwide injunction blocking the gag rule were allowed to remain in effect.
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Medical groups have dubbed that last change the "domestic gag rule," since it forces health providers to withhold medical information—namely, where a patient could get an abortion.
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And she proposes a reversal of the Trump administration's domestic gag rule, which bars providers that receive federal family planning funds from performing or referring patients for abortions.
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Update: On Wednesday, May 17, Women Deliver — a non-profit organization globally advocating for women's health — responded to the Trump administration's expansion of the global gag rule policy.
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One of his first acts as president was to force through a global gag rule that prevents the United States from funding international NGOs that provide abortion counseling.
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Agreeing to the global gag rule means that foreign NGOs cannot talk to women about their safe and legal options, at the expense of their health and safety.
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It would force clinics to close, contraceptive supplies to dwindle and costs to patients to rise, yet, he still chose to impose — and expand — the global gag rule.
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Peggy Little is a senior litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the SEC to amend its "gag rule," 202.5e.
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The Trump administration not only reinstated this draconian policy, it expanded the Global Gag Rule to all of global health, impacting 15 times more funding than ever before.
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This Gag Rule doesn't just impact reproductive health services --- men, women and children seeking treatment for malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS are losing access to lifesaving care.
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Trump has reinstated and expanded the inhumane Global Gag Rule that prevents foreign organizations receiving U.S. global health assistance from providing information, referrals, or services for legal abortion.
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The Mexico City policy — called the "global gag rule" by critics — prohibits federal funds from going to international organizations that discuss, provide or offer referrals for abortion services.
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But all this does not detract from the frustrations of the Democrats when faced with the gag rule Republicans have placed on anything having to do with guns.
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That's why Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) and I are jointly sponsoring the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act, which would permanently repeal the Global Gag Rule.
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The organization also says that the domestic gag rule is part of a larger attack by the Trump administration, not just on abortion rights, but on contraception too.
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Background: Planned Parenthood left Title X to avoid complying with the Trump administration's "gag rule," which bars groups that offer abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funding.
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I've seen Marie Stopes International apply this lifesaving method in Vietnam — but the Trump administration is cutting off all assistance to Marie Stopes under the global gag rule.
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The closest precedent for this kind of censorious misuse of congressional rules was the House of Representatives' use of the so-called Gag Rule, between 1836 and 1844.
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In September, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a mandamus challenge to the judge's gag rule, although the appeals court signaled discomfort with the blanket prohibition.
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Research has shown that implementing the global gag rule actually increases the abortion rate in foreign countries, and it's also linked with a marked increase in maternal deaths.
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On Monday, Trump signed an executive order, widely known as the "global gag rule," which bars international nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions from receiving US government funding.
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Further court challenges are likely: threatening sanctuary cities with a loss of federal funding may violate the Tenth Amendment and the abortion gag rule runs up against the First.
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The crest also includes the letters HHS backwards, for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Title X—"SHH" is in reference to the proposed gag rule.
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Some of their revenue is under threat following President Donald Trump's order to reinstate the global gag rule that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion.
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Sheryl Sandberg has been in the news lately for her opposition to the global gag rule and her more recent comments on Trump's highly controversial and discriminatory immigration ban.
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For example, Trump's newly proposed "domestic gag rule," which would, if implemented, reduce the number of Title X-funded family planning clinics for low income women to turn to.
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From banning refugees and Muslims entering the country to reinstating the global gag rule to picking a Supreme Court nominee who will very likely seek to overturn Roe v.
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And in the 2000 budget, Congress enacted a "global gag" rule that denied US funding to any private development group that used non-US funds to provide abortion services.
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Studies of the Gag Rule have shown that it doesn't actually decrease abortions, but because it does cut off access to contraception, it actually makes abortion rates go up.
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When Donald Trump signed an executive action to reinstate the Global Gag Rule, banning federal funding for international nongovernment organizations that offer safe abortion access, we took a hit.
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There is no evidence to support that the global gag rule reduces abortions, but there is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that the rule hurts women around the world.
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The gag rule was a clause in his contract with one of the pharmaceutical benefit managers, also known as PBMs, that manage most of our nation's prescription drug programs.
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A prime example of this ideological agenda in action is the Trump administration's Title X gag rule, which is set to go into effect in the beginning of May.
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The domestic gag rule will restrict health centers receiving Title X funding from discussing the full range of reproductive care, and from referring patients for safe, legal abortion care.
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At a hearing last month in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I challenged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the disastrous consequences of the administration's expanded Global Gag Rule.
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But the subject of slavery was so incendiary that in 1836 the House of Representatives implemented a "gag rule," whereby any antislavery petitions would be tabled automatically without debate.
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Now, the Trump administration is proposing a so-called domestic gag rule that would strictly limit how clinics that get this funding can refer patients for safe, legal abortions.
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Leading professional medical organizations strongly oppose the proposed domestic gag rule, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Physicians.
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I'll repeal the Trump administration's heartless Global Gag Rule, which makes organizations that conduct or refer patients for abortion ineligible for PEPFAR funds and harms patients at those clinics.
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In response to the administration's actions, the House in June passed a bill that would block the domestic gag rule, as the Title X rule change is sometimes called.
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In response to the administration's actions, the House in June passed a bill that would block the domestic gag rule, as the Title X rule change is sometimes called.
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The legislation permanently repeals the domestic gag rule and global gag rule, which block local and international organizations that offer or even discuss abortion care from receiving federal funding; increases funding for the Title X program; offers at least $750 million for international family planning programs; and blocks a Trump administration rule allowing health providers to refuse care on a "freedom of conscience" basis to patients who've had abortions or are LGBTQ+, among other measures.
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Among other initiatives, President Trump is proposing massive cuts to America's foreign aid, planning to accept far fewer refugees, and reinstating the global gag rule on abortion (a Republican tradition).
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He extended the "global gag rule" in the process, to aid provided by all governmental departments and agencies, not just the two sources stipulated previously: USAID and the State Department.
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The Freedom Caucus also targets foreign aid for family planning by reinstating the Reagan-era Mexico City Policy, otherwise known as the "global gag rule," which Obama repealed in 19733.
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The policy has been derided as a "gag rule" by abortion rights supporters and medical groups, and it is likely to trigger lawsuits that could keep it from taking effect.
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Several reproductive health groups and states have sued over the rule changes, which they say amounts to a "gag rule" on providers' ability to refer patients for a legal procedure.
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In that post, he praised President Trump's reinstatement of the global gag rule and mentions his own sponsorship of a bill to prohibit the use of federal funds for abortion.
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But if Trump's global gag rule had been in effect 40 years ago, it's possible that Ecuador would be in a completely different situation when it comes to women's health.
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Much like Gillibrand, she proposes a reversal of the Trump administration's domestic gag rule, which bars providers that receive federal family planning funds from performing or referring patients for abortions.
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"President Trump's executive order to reinstate the Global Gag Rule is extremely short sighted and shows his willingness to ignore decades of research in favor of ideological politics," Shaheen said.
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He's since proposed a gag rule to prevent doctors and nurses who participate in the nation's family planning program from telling patients all their options when it comes to pregnancy.
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And when White House press secretary Sean Spicer explained Trump's decision Monday during his first daily press briefing, he made a false statement about what the gag rule actually does.
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So when health care providers lose funds due to the gag rule, it slashes funding and causes nurses to be laid off for all health care services the provider offers.
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Wade to his recent reinstatement and massive expansion of the global gag rule, it's clear that Pence will have a strong influence on reproductive rights policy in the White House.
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But he didn't do anything about the Helms amendment, a policy that leads some foreign health care providers to act almost as if the gag rule were still in place.
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We know, based on analyses of the years of the George W. Bush Administration when the global gag rule was in effect, that these restrictions simply do not reduce abortions.
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The executive action dating to 1984 — and described by critics as the "global gag rule" — requires foreign nongovernmental organizations to refuse to perform abortions in exchange for receiving American funding.
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In 2017, the Trump administration reinstated and expanded the "global gag rule," which bars health care providers abroad that receive US government aid from providing, referring for, or discussing abortion.
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The global gag rule was introduced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 at the International Conference on Population in Mexico City, and is also known as the Mexico City Policy.
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Biden will repeal the Hyde Amendment and use executive action to on his first day in office withdraw the Mexico City "global gag rule" and Donald Trump's Title X restrictions.
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Reversing the Trump administration's domestic gag rule, which is a disgraceful assault on women's rights and an assault on millions of Americans' ability to get the health care they need.
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In his speech, the president outlined his administration's achievements in restricting abortion access, from reinstating and expanding the global gag rule to appointing conservative judges to the nation's federal courts.
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In his speech, he noted that he expanded the global gag rule, which prohibits some groups abroad that receive US aid from providing, giving referrals for, or talking about abortion.
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Others have interpreted Mr. Trump's executive order reinstating and expanding the "Mexico City policy" gag rule on abortion counseling to mean shuttering Pepfar, though there's no concrete evidence of that.
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Later, in Washington, women rallied near the White House to protest the "global gag rule" banning federal funding for any organization overseas that discusses abortion as a family planning option.
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"President Trump's reinstatement of the global gag rule ignores decades of research, instead favoring ideological politics over women and families," Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said on Monday.
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In separate lawsuits, they have challenged what they call a "gag rule" arguing that it creates an unlawful restriction that prevents healthcare providers from providing information to their female patients.
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Mr. Bush's gag rule forced hospitals and clinics to post two doctors to do one person's job: a doctor to talk about contraception, a different doctor to help with abortion.
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Perversely, the gag rule appears to have led to an increase in abortions, which its proponents obviously did not intend, and would be likely to do so in the future.
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We must urge Congress to support the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights Act, which would permanently repeal the global gag rule and protect the health of women across the world.
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The far-reaching gag rule affects groups getting funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, even if they use separate money for abortion services, counseling or referrals, advocates note.
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Known as the "Mexico City policy" or the "Global Gag Rule," the policy bars foreign aid or federal funding for international programs that provide abortions — or even information about the procedure.
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Mexico City policy Implemented by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Mexico City policy, or Global Gag Rule, blocks US funding to non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions.
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Although family planning is a critical component of the "smart diplomacy" that President Obama promoted, the Trump Administration has already reinstated the Mexico City Policy (also called the "global gag rule").
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"The Trump administration's 'Global Gag Rule' has had a disastrous effect on women around the world," said Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights in a statement.
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Schiff has eliminated transparency in these depositions by placing a gag-rule on members who have access to the depositions, such as myself, from speaking publicly about the closed-door sessions.
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On Monday, Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, or "global gag rule," which freezes U.S. federal funding to any NGOs that offer abortion services or promote it for family planning guidance.
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The Title X "gag rule," as its called by opponents, was implemented by former president Ronald Reagan in 1988, but was quickly blocked by lawsuits from Planned Parenthood and other organizations.
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And let's not forget, one of President Trump's first actions while in office was to reinstate the Global Gag Rule, which blocks international organizations that offer abortions from receiving federal funding.
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Contrary to recent media reports, HHS&aposs proposal does not include the so-called "gag rule" on counseling about abortion that was part of the Reagan administration&aposs Title 22018 rule.
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The global gag rule undermines this valuable effort, sending a message to the world that the U.S. is against abortion, and that we prioritize the issue of abortion above everything else.
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On his first days in office, Trump reinstated and expanded the global gag rule, a law that prevents foreign NGOs that are supported by US funding from promoting or providing abortions.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in June also issued a "domestic gag rule" that prevents Title X grantees from offering a full range of pregnancy-related options.
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U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017 imposed a gag rule that banned U.S.-funded groups globally from discussing abortion, forcing them to accept the restriction or reject it and lose funding.
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The so-called global gag rule has forced the closure of health clinics, outreach programs and refugee services by charities, risking the health of millions of women, reproductive rights experts said.
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First introduced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, the global gag rule was rescinded by Democrats and then reinstated by Republicans (under George W. Bush), but never before to this extent.
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Two years later, the Trump administration reinstated the "Domestic Gag Rule," an anti-choice policy that bans providers in the U.S. from receiving government funds from referring patients for abortion services.
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NARAL Pro-Choice America is launching a national campaign to repeal the so-called gag rule that prevents service-oriented groups, including AmeriCorps, from promoting or supporting abortions in any way.
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Enact: President Reagan initiated a major shift in U.S. policy through a policy pronouncement that became known as the "Mexico City Policy", but also labeled derisively as the global "gag rule".
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This policy is commonly called the Global Gag Rule because it prohibits US funding for international women's health organizations that so much as mention abortion as an option with their patients.
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We are researchers who have looked at the effects of the rule's prototype – the global gag rule – over many years in various countries where U.S. funding contributes to reproductive health initiatives.
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The organization refused to comply with the Trump administration's latest abortion gag rule: new regulations that bar health care workers that receive funds from referring patients to safe, legal abortion providers.
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The Reagan administration rewrote those Title X regulations to create the gag rule, prohibiting other services from being provided in the same place as abortions, and banning abortion referrals and counseling.
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A second way Trump is hobbling the battle against cervical cancer is his "global gag rule," halting funding abroad for organizations linked in some way to abortion, including counseling about abortion.
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READ: Clinics are facing an impossible choice because of Trump's 'gag rule' "I completely understand why they're doing it," said Jack Doppelt, a professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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On Monday, the State Department issued rules expanding the so-called global gag rule, or Mexico City policy, which bars organizations overseas from receiving United States aid if they discuss abortion.
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A 2011 Stanford University study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examined the impact of a previous iteration of the Trump global gag rule in 85033 African countries.
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On that very first day in the White House, he imposed the "global gag rule," which stopped United States government funding to overseas organizations that provide abortions or counseling on abortions.
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Established in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, the global gag rule has since become a political football that has been repeatedly rescinded and revived depending on which party controls the White House.
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The global gag rule, introduced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 as part of his Mexico City Policy, made discussion of abortion by a group receiving federal support for any purpose illegal.
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She plans to repeal the Hyde Amendment and the Trump administration's gag rule on Title X, which prevents providers from informing women how to access abortion and from performing the procedure. Sen.
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But he also had to fuck up foreign healthcare, tooAnother terrible executive order reinstated the "global gag rule," which bans US aid-funded organizations from performing or talking to women about abortion.
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The Trump administration reinstated a global gag rule that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion and supports stripping federal funding from women's health care clinics that offer abortions.
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On Friday, the state Senate in South Dakota was set to hear arguments for a proposed gag rule that would prevent teachers from teaching anything involving gender identity until the eighth grade.
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" In July, Glass wrote an opinion article for Psychiatric Times in which he said he and fellow colleagues were "shocked by what we felt was the APA's 'gag rule' on this issue.
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A coalition of more than 140 global health organizations, including Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, has joined forces to oppose the global gag rule, with the effort being led by Refugees International.
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"Sweden's proposed restriction amounts to a type of reverse gag rule that will only compound the confusion and further stifle NGO collaboration," says Jonathan Rucks of advocacy group Population Action International (PAI).
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President Donald Trump's "gag rule" policy to prohibit family planning clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving $286 million in federal funding under Title X went into effect in February.
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The global gag rule goes much further than simply banning US foreign aid from paying for abortions directly — which is already the law, and which has its own detrimental consequences for women.
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Still, independent abortion providers from Colorado to Maine have announced they plan to leave Title X rather than comply with what they see as an unethical "gag rule" on a legal procedure.
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While Tillerson calls for bolstering stability in Africa, development experts say the global gag rule will directly undermine those goals, damaging longer-term economic prospects and stability of the world's poorest countries.
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President Trump's reinstatement of the global gag rule — which will dramatically cut funding for reproductive health services worldwide — is nothing short of a death sentence for Africans stretching into the next century.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Plan to Revive Abortion Limit Set by Reagan" (front page, May 18): The Trump administration plans to impose a domestic gag rule on abortion counseling and provision.
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Democrats complained that they were blocked from introducing amendments stopping the Mexico City Policy, or gag rule, which prevents foreign funds from going to organizations that provide counseling or referrals for abortion.
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Known as the global gag rule because it prevents talking with women about the procedure, this ban has been enforced and revoked by different administrations since it was first imposed in 1984.
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That's not ideal, but with the gag rule rescinded, organizations that did provide abortions could still seek alternate funding for those services while using U.S. aid to provide other care to clients.
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The report found that organizations that could not comply with the global gag rule lost their USAID funding, which resulted in loss of service via clinics, contraceptive supplies, technical support, and equipment.
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The global gag rule is about politics and ideology in the worst way – as it has been for the previous 16 years the policy was in existence, only now it's much worse.
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The administration may attempt to do so by imposing some form of domestic gag rule that would preclude Title X clinics from counseling patients on abortion or referring them to abortion clinics.
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Further, the administration instituted an American version of the global gag rule, barring doctors and nurses receiving Title X funds from making abortion referrals to their patients except in certain emergency situations.
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In the House, Adams used various tactics to foil the gag on the freedom to petition, at one point quickly reading an abolitionist petition before the gag rule could be imposed on him.
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Experts say Trump's move actually broadens the scope of the global gag rule so that it applies to funds from all government departments and agencies, not just U.S.A.I.D. and the U.S. State Department.
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Under the gag rule, providers can put their personal ideology above the health and safety of their patients, choosing to omit options like birth control or abortion in favor of abstinence or adoption.
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Planned Parenthood, whose affiliates are major providers of family planning services as well as abortions, said the administration is trying to impose a "gag rule," and launched a full campaign to block it.
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The takeaway for most members of the Committee was that the Global Gag Rule was a destructive policy that led to more unintended pregnancies and more abortions — especially more underground, unsafe, dangerous abortions.
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Since his inauguration, Trump has ordered not just the global gag rule, but a non-defense federal hiring freeze that will disproportionately harm veterans (whom Trump claimed to champion on the campaign trail).
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All of the evidence was available to Trump before instituting this policy: The global gag rule would lead to loss of life around the world, yet, he still chose to prioritize partisan ideology.
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Ushered in by President Donald Trump's administration, the Mexico City policy, or global gag rule, was supposed to reduce the number of abortions, but healthcare workers in Kenya say it's doing the opposite.
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Advocates for the rule changes say they ensure that no taxpayer dollars "intermingle," but opponents say they amount to an unethical "gag rule" on providers' ability to refer patients for a legal procedure.
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The global gag rule, contrary to what Trump administration officials and anti-abortion groups have said, doesn't prevent US taxpayer money from going to fund abortions abroad — that wasn't happening to begin with.
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And reinstating the global gag rule is a clear signal that Trump, who said in 1999 that he was "very pro-choice," is actually willing to pass sweeping anti-abortion measures as president.
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Not long afterwards, the US cut its funding for the United Nations Population Fund – the UN agency that deals with family planning and reproductive health – claiming that its operations violate the gag rule.
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"I fully expect that after this I will be banned from the Iditarod based on the gag rule," he said, making reference to a rule he claimed prevents mushers from discussing internal matters.
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Those partner organizations that refuse to sign the gag rule — Marie Stopes, for one, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation for another — will no longer be able to work with USAID at all.
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Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies department at Rutgers University, and the author of The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health: Rhetoric versus Reality.
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Within days of taking office, he rolled back the global gag rule, barring foreign aid from contributing to abortions (though this rule typically changes with each incoming administration, depending on its political leanings).
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Upon taking office, Mr. Trump signed a presidential memorandum reinstituting and expanding the so-called global gag rule, which bars federal funding for organizations around the world that provide abortion counseling or referrals.
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Many athletes call it a "gag rule" that curtails their freedom of speech and unfairly sidelines the sponsors who bankrolled and supported their training, sometimes for years, at the moment of highest visibility.
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Her clinics receive American funding, and she says that the ban, called by critics the global gag rule, could have a major impact on poor women and communities like the ones she serves.
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"The gag rule is unconscionable and unethical," said Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a statement to media when a draft of the rule was published in February.
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Planned Parenthood specifically serves about 40% of people who get healthcare through Title X. This means the Trump administration's domestic gag rule could cut as much as $60 million in funds for the organization.
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The world begrudgingly worked around the gag rule in the 1980s, fought it and the abstinence prevention strategy during the George W. Bush years and will likely do battle with reinstated gags in 2017.
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And Donald Trump dismayed progressives when he ruled that no more funds would be given to organisations that offer advice on abortion, a draconian reinstatement of an old policy known as the "gag rule".
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In January, Trump reintroduced the Mexico City Policy, a Reagan-era measure also known as the "global gag rule" that blocks U.S. funding for health providers around the globe who also provide abortion services.
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"A big issue is the ability to gather evidence of impact," she said, referring to the time it takes for global policies like the gag rule to have tangible, documentable impacts on world health.
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And there are no set rules of evidence, no due-process requirement and of course no gag rule for jurors—senators must stay mum inside the chamber but can talk freely to the press.
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Almost as soon as he took office, Trump reinstated and drastically expanded the Global Gag Rule, stripping away U.S. aid from overseas organizations that provide health services to some of the world's poorest women.
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Rowling tweeted screenshots of a Guttmacher Institute study into the impact of the global gag rule, which found that thousands of women's lives have been placed a risk as a result of the policy.
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The White House has maintained the proposal is different from former President Ronald Reagan's so-called "gag rule" in 1988, which prevented federal money from being allocated to an organization that even mentioned abortion.
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His most recent policy change — barring federal money from any clinic that performs abortions or any facility that refers a patient or discusses abortion as a health-care option — is a domestic gag rule.
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The new Lancet study found that between 1995 and 2014, whenever international patients stopped receiving contraceptives and family planning advice due to the gag rule being reinstated, rates of pregnancy—and abortions—shot up.
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The Trump administration's announcement that it will prohibit federal funding to any medical entity that provides or refers women for abortion care — the gag rule — is a straight-up attack on low-income women.
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READ: 6 states are now rejecting federal money because of Trump's abortion 'gag rule' In July, Comer told both sides that he expected his decision to be appealed — regardless of which side he supported.
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The gag rule, on the other hand, punishes a foreign family planning organization for using its own money to provide, or even discuss, abortion services if it also receives money from the federal government.
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In a statement on Tuesday evening, Planned Parenthood called the proposal a "nationwide gag rule" that was "straight out of 'The Handmaid's Tale,'" the dystopian novel in which women are treated as reproductive slaves.
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You cannot be a feminist and go along with the White House's newly announced domestic gag rule, a mandate that would withhold funding from any health care center that helps patients find abortion services.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Monday it would vastly expand the so-called global gag rule that withholds American aid from health organizations worldwide that provide or even discuss abortion in family planning.
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Trump's expansion of the global gag rule - which withholds U.S. funding from foreign clinics or groups that provide information about abortion - dealt a blow to family planning services and women's health worldwide, charities said.
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The Trump administration's Title X gag rule, which bars federal funding for health centers that provide abortion care, has resulted in the closure of thousands of health centers that provide preventive care to women.
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The first sign of how bad Mr. Trump would be on reproductive health came three days after he was sworn in, when he signed a new, souped-up version of the global gag rule.
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Beginning in 1830, after serving a term as president, Adams was elected several times to the House of Representatives, where he led the fight against the "gag rule," which barred discussion of abolitionist petitions.
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One case in point is the full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that upheld a three-judge panel decision to remove the stay that blocked Trump's "domestic gag rule" from going into effect.
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At some clinics that received United States funding, "we had to build walls" to comply with the gag rule, recalled Shyam Thapa, a social scientist who advised the United States Agency for International Development.
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The domestic gag rule will drastically restrict women's access to contraception, abortion care, even cancer screenings, and it will deal the heaviest blow to poor women reliant on the Title X program it dismantles.
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Earlier this week, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a near $1 trillion spending package that includes several provisions reversing the Trump administration's anti-choice policies, including the domestic gag rule.
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"Because of our commitment to ethical patient care, it would be impossible for Planned Parenthood to continue participating in the program with the gag rule fully in place," according to a statement from Planned Parenthood.
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Organizations as diverse as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and Family Health International lost millions of dollars in support from the US government during the years the gag rule was enforced.
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"We applaud the House for passing this important bill that will repeal the disgraceful global gag rule," said Brian Dixon, spokesman for the Population Connection Action Fund, a family planning and reproductive health care group.
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Just three days after his inauguration, President Trump signed a memorandum reinstating what's known as the Global Gag Rule — a policy that eliminates US development aid funding for any NGO that provides abortion-related services.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X," Alexis McGill Johnson, the acting president and CEO of the organization, said, according to CNN.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title 10," Alexis McGill, acting president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, told journalists on a conference call.
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Experts have warned that the expansion of the global gag rule that Trump has imposed will kill millions of women around the world, while his legislation defunding Planned Parenthood put US women's health in jeopardy.
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Gillibrand and Warren also pledge to overturn the Hyde Amendment and the broader gag rule the Trump administration has imposed, which limits health care providers who provide abortions from receiving federal funding for family planning.
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Critics like Planned Parenthood's President Leana Wen have called the restrictions a "gag rule" that prevents clinics from providing birth control, cancer screening, HIV testing and other essential healthcare, especially to poor people and minorities.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to reinstate a policy that blocks US foreign aid dollars from reaching any organization that provides abortion counseling or services, dubbed the "Global Gag Rule" by critics.
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While experts say exact figures are difficult to ascertain, one major family planning group, Marie Stopes International estimates the gag rule will deny some 1.7 million women globally access to its services, the report said.
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He quickly brought back George W. Bush's "global gag rule," signing an executive order that bars federally funded groups not only from providing abortions to pregnant women, but from even discussing abortion as an option.
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Overall, more than one in five Title X facilities will no longer use program funding as the effects of this gag rule continue to roll out, a major blow to STD prevention, testing, and treatment.
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His one-man crusade against the gag rule was part of a larger campaign to insist that slavery be placed on the political agenda as the major piece of unfinished business left by the founders.
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In other words, in addition to the steep costs imposed on other forms of health care when the gag rule is instituted, it has the exact opposite effect of what conservative policymakers say they intend.
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In January 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive action reinstating that policy, also known as the "Global Gag Rule," which prevents international nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions from receiving US government funding.
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As we've seen with the global gag rule, the cruelest part of this policy is that people of color and low-income communities will be impacted the most because they have fewer options for care.
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Who is most affectedHealth clinics and opponents of the policy argue this new gag rule will disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged populations and leave them with nowhere else to turn for referrals to abortion providers.
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Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, had higher abortion rates after George W. Bush reinstated the gag rule, because it reduced women's access to contraception and caused more unwanted pregnancies, which women then chose to terminate.
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Studies conducted by PAI have shown that every time the global gag rule returns, more women in developing countries bear unwanted pregnancies, die or become disabled due to unsafe abortions, or lose crucial medical care.
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Contrary to the dubious claim that the gag rule will reduce abortions, we know from previous iterations of the policy that unsafe abortions, unintended pregnancies and maternal deaths will increase as a result of it.
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Health workers in developing nations are preparing for a rise in unsafe abortions due to President Trump's reinstatement of the global gag rule that prohibits federal funding of groups that provide abortion services or referrals.
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First implemented by President Reagan in 1984, the global gag rule eliminates U.S. aid for family planning and reproductive health to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or discuss the option of abortion with patients.
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That policy is often described as a domestic gag rule because it barred caregivers at facilities that received family planning funds from providing any information to patients about an abortion or where to receive one.
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Known as the Mexico City policy — and by its critics as the global gag rule — the abortion policy prohibits organizations abroad from using American aid to talk about abortion as a method of family planning.
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Abortion rights group launches campaign: NARAL Pro-Choice America is calling on Congress to repeal the so-called gag rule that prevents service-oriented groups, including AmeriCorps, from promoting or supporting abortions in any way.
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Alongside a suit-clad, nearly all-male cadre of White House insiders, Trump signed a new global gag rule designed to silence doctors and disrupt reproductive health care for some of the world's poorest women.
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The global gag rule "affects other communicable diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, HIV," Melvine Ouyo, a former clinic director for Family Health Options Kenya, the largest, oldest reproductive health-care provider in the nation, told CNN.
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Y.) and Andy LevinAndrew (Andy) LevinMore than 6900 House Dems reject Trump peace plan in open letter Overnight Energy: Trump officials finalize plans to shrink Bears Ears, Grand Staircase | Trump backs off support for Yucca Mountain nuke waste site | BLM leadership expanded Colorado oil drilling over staff objections We must repeal the Global Gag Rule to protect girls' and women's lives MORE (D-Mich.) took a step in the right direction by introducing the Global HER Act (HR 2628) which would repeal the Global gag Rule.
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I have released an entire plan to advance reproductive rights through executive action that includes: Creating a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom; Ending the "domestic gag rule" and expanding and modernizing the Title X family planning program; Guaranteeing access to employer-covered contraceptive care; Undoing Trump's refusal rules that allow people to be denied the health care they need; Restoring evidence-based guidelines for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program; and, Ending the global gag rule and restoring funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title 10," Acting President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson told journalists on a conference call.
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In the original 2003 language of PEPFAR, the Bush administration added still more teeth to the global gag rule, prohibiting funding of any group that "promotes or advocates" legalization and practice of prostitution and sex trafficking.
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The initiatives included permanent repeal of the so-called global gag rule, a policy that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, making them accept the restriction or reject it and lose funding.
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The Mexico City Policy, also known by detractors as the "Global Gag Rule," was first introduced in 1984 by the Reagan administration at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, held in Mexico City.
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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates fears President Trump's "global gag rule," a policy that blocks funds to organizations that offer abortion advice and care in foreign countries, may endanger millions of woman and children.
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AROUND THE WEB: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned four key sections of the state's hydraulic fracturing law, including provisions regarding a "gag" rule for physicians and a limit on spill notifications, the Washington Observer-Reporter reports.
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Ten years ago a member of Congress listened to hours of testimony about the harms and misery inflicted overseas by the Mexico City, commonly known as the global gag rule and offered up a puzzling proposal.
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The gag rule has forced the closure of health clinics and outreach programs by charities that fear non-compliance could lead to the loss of their U.S. healthcare aid, which totals about $8 billion a year.
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He will undoubtedly continue Trump's expansion of the "global gag rule," and it is possible he may try to push a "clash of civilizations" strategy, primarily seeking alliances with countries that have a "Judeo-Christian" character.
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To name just a few: the Global Gag Rule has caused mass confusion on the ground, leading some of our most trusted partners to shutter their doors and cut off needed services to women and families.
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As government agencies working on Ivanka Trump's plan partner with local organizations on the ground, they will basically be forcing agencies to comply with the gag rule or risk millions of women not receiving economic support.
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Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights advocates have argued since the proposal surfaced last week that it still constitutes a gag rule because it would stop health care providers from discussing certain things with their patients.
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In his first days, the president issued a memorandum that restored the so-called global gag rule, which restricts federal funds from being used by organizations in other countries if they provide abortion counseling or referrals.
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The cuts came after Donald Trump's administration in 2017 reinstated a policy known as the "global gag rule" that requires NGOs receiving U.S. family planning funds to certify they do not provide abortions or abortion advice.
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Planned Parenthood, which joined several states and organizations in suing over the rules, calls those changes a "gag rule" that interferes in the doctor-patient relationship, stopping providers from telling women where they can get abortions.
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The gag rule prompted Planned Parenthood to leave the Title X program, meaning all Planned Parenthoods (even ones that don't provide abortions) are ineligible for funding from the government for the medical care they do provide.
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Reinstatement of the gag rule, formally the Mexico City policy, comes just two days after crowds of people marched in cities around the world in a show of unity for women's rights, among them abortion access.
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Bullock supports ending Hyde, codifying Roe, and strengthening Title X funding, which provides money for family planning and preventive health care clinics (though the domestic gag rule currently restricts it to institutions that do not provide abortions).
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In his first week, Trump signed the Global Gag Rule, a law that will cut off any US foreign aid to organizations that mention the word abortion or tell women where they can get safe, legal procedures.
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"This 'gag rule' is not only unconscionable, but it undermines medical ethics by forcing health care professionals to withhold accurate and timely medical information from patients," says Jenn Conti, M.D., a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
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Our team has been documenting the devastating impact of the gag rule, which has caused debilitating funding losses to NGOs that provide family planning, maternal and child health, nutrition, HIV, primary care, and other critical health services.
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It follows the reinstation by U.S. President Donald Trump in January of a policy known by critics as the "global gag rule" which withholds U.S. funding for international organizations that perform abortions or provide information about abortion.
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Global Gag Rule: The result is life or death The US has also pulled all funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -- a UN agency that promotes family planning -- for allegedly supporting coercive abortion in China.
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Women also reported fewer abortions when funding was available—about a 40 percent decrease in the rate compared to periods when the gag rule was in effect and to countries where effects of the rule were insignificant.
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"The world is a lot different now than it was in 2001, when Bush implemented the gag rule," said Patty Skuster, policy advisor at IPAS, a global nonprofit dedicated to ending death and injury from unsafe abortion.
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Trump's expanded iteration of the global gag rule doesn't only apply to organizations that receive reproductive health and family planning assistance, unlike past versions of the policy, affecting 15 times as much funding, or around $8.8 billion.
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The senator also homed in on the vital public policies at stake, noting that the gag rule allows a company and an agency that have both failed in some way to conceal their failure from the public.
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"Even as HHS announces these important grants for health care, it is rushing to finalize a domestic gag rule that would take that care away," said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Also by executive action, it re-imposed and expanded the scope of the "global gag rule," which denies U.S. funding for overseas providers of global health services, if they "advocate" for or provide counseling on abortion services.
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The gag rule will apply to 15 times more funding than normal because it applies to all global health funding, not just family planning funding through USAID (United States Agency for International Development) or the State Department.
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Four million women in the U.S. receive contraceptive care and cancer screenings through Title X, commonly referred to as the federal family planning program, and this gag rule will put politics between providers and millions of patients.
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But maybe she could encourage him to stop his plans to impose a modified domestic "gag rule" that would strictly limit the conditions under which health care providers who receive federal funds could provide information about abortion.
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The Trump administration spent the first quarter of 2017 signaling plans to undermine that sort of integrated care by reinstating the gag rule and beginning to reduce US funding for maternal and infant health around the world.
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Trump reinstated the "global gag rule," a policy from previous Republican administrations that blocks federal funding from international family planning organizations that "either provide abortion or discuss abortion services with their clients," as Emily Crockett put it.
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"This gag rule is not only unconscionable, but it undermines medical ethics by allowing health care professionals to withhold accurate and timely medical information from patients," said Dr. Jenn Conti, a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
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READ: 6 states are now rejecting federal funds because of Trump's abortion 'gag rule' When she realized that there would be no more medical help, Sanchez took off her underwear and yelled that the baby was coming.
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She claims that it's deeply hypocritical that Planned Parenthood, "would attempt to enforce a gag order on its immediate past President/CEO while fighting the Trump administration's gag rule on Title X providers," according to the NYT.
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The big picture: Planned Parenthood left the federal family planning program known as Title X to avoid complying with the Trump administration's "gag rule," which bars groups that offer abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funding.
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The global gag rule is one such policy that has devastated sexual and reproductive health, and health systems across the globe — breaking down critical health systems, shuttering clinics, and even dissolving programs for HIV testing and treatment.
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Earlier this year, the Trump administration forced Planned Parenthood and other health care providers out of Title X through an unethical gag rule that removes funding from providers that offer or even discuss abortion services with patients.
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Commonly known as the "domestic gag rule," these new regulations forced Planned Parenthood clinics and several other Title X providers to drop out of program and reject federal funding, slashing the Title X network's capacity in half.
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The Trump administration's plan to impose a so-called "domestic gag rule"—a prohibition on providing, referring and counseling about abortion—on facilities receiving Title X funding for family planning services has unleashed a storm of criticism.
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It is also sending members to participate in a protest outside the White House Wednesday over Trump's decision to reinstate the "global gag rule," which bars federal dollars from going to international health care organizations that perform abortions.
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The bad old days of United States foreign assistance are coming back, now that President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule on overseas discussion of abortion by individuals and organizations receiving federal funding.
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His administration ultimately replaced Regan's gag rule with its opposite: a requirement that providers receiving federal funds provide appropriate "nondirective" counseling that includes the full range of options for pregnant women, from prenatal care to adoption to abortion.
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It does not include a provision, referred to as a "domestic gag rule" by opponents, that would prevent organizations receiving funding from discussing abortion as an option for patients, or referring patients to other clinics to receive abortions.
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The proposed "domestic gag rule" would do three things: First, it would impose new rules that are designed to make it impossible for patients to get birth control or preventive care from reproductive healthcare providers like Planned Parenthood.
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"President Trump's gag rule undermines women's health care and threatens the providers that millions of women and girls rely on, and we will not let that stand in the state of Illinois," the governor said in a statement.
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Trump signed an executive order approving the gag rule on his fourth day in office in January 2017 - a policy long used by U.S. presidents to signal their stance on abortion rights, a touchstone issue in U.S. politics.
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The global gag rule puts organizations in a difficult position, and some are forced to accept its terms because US funding is vital to their mission of providing those in need with contraception and other reproductive health services.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule", the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy once in office and Republican presidents then reinstating it.
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"President Trump's executive order to reinstate the Global Gag Rule is extremely short sighted and shows his willingness to ignore decades of research in favor of ideological politics," Shaheen said, using a term critics use for the rule.
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That work, as referenced in our resolution, must begin with reinstating funding for UNFPA, repealing the Global Gag Rule, and increasing U.S. funding for family planning programs to ensure that all women can meet their contraceptive needs. Rep.
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The global gag rule has become something of a political seesaw since Ronald Reagan first implemented it in 1984 at a United Nations population conference in Mexico City (which is why it's also called the "Mexico City policy").
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Traditionally, the gag rule, when in place, has banned all international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive USAID family planning funding from mentioning abortion to patients, as well as curtailed their ability to use outside funding to provide abortions.
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If harming low-income women and curtailing the freedom of speech of health care providers who serve them is the goal, the domestic gag rule is going to deliver – just like its global counterpart has done for decades.
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"Due to an unethical and dangerous gag rule, the Trump administration has forced Planned Parenthood grantees out of Title X," Alexis McGill Johnson, the acting president and CEO of the organization, said in a phone call with reporters.
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Lower courts have consistently opposed the Department of Health and Human Services' desire to block referrals, and reproductive rights groups have pushed back against the so-called "gag rule," arguing that it has already harmed low-income women.
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In May, the Trump administration proposed a nationwide gag rule that would cut off funding from the Title X family planning program to Planned Parenthood and other centers unless they stop providing abortions or referring people for abortions.
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And that's on top of all the other Trump administration insults: reviving the global gag rule on abortion, suspending tracking of the gender wage gap, deep-sixing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order and much more.
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"While we are incredibly concerned the panel did not recognize the harm of the Trump-Pence administration's gag rule, we will not stop fighting for the millions across the country in need for care," Wen added in a statement.
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The Title X program serves about 4 million people a year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and clinics that don't abide by what opponents call a "gag rule" would be forced to forgo federal funding.
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"How ironic that the Trump administration expanded the Global Gag Rule the day after Mother's Day, and in the middle of Women's Health Week," Katja Iversen, president and CEO of Women Deliver, said in a statement shared with Refinery29.
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The witnesses included the former Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana, who explained that the Global Gag Rule stripped contraceptive access from nearly 40,000 women, and had a particularly harmful impact on poor and rural communities.
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The gag rule has forced the closure of health clinics, outreach programs and refugee services by charities, fearful that non-compliance could lead to the loss of all their U.S. healthcare aid, which totals some $8 billion a year.
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On Monday, Trump signed an executive order to reinstate the Reagan-era policy, referred to by critics as the "global gag rule," that would block federal funding for international family planning charities that provide abortions or promote abortion rights.
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President Trump's administration has launched a series of insults and attacks on women in his short time in office — from history's most expansive global gag rule on abortion to Trumpcare, the worst healthcare bill for women in a generation.
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But conservative and anti-abortion groups still pushed for a domestic "gag rule" to reduce the amount of federal money going to Planned Parenthood, which many view as an inherently immoral institution for providing abortions in the first place.
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This was all happening when I started this book, and in addition George W. Bush signed the global gag rule, which deprives funding to any women's health organization world wide that so much as mentions abortion under any circumstances.
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The Title X program serves approximately 4 million people a year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and clinics that don't abide by what opponents call a "gag rule" would be forced to forgo federal funding.
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Lufkin says its data and analytics team has helped determine that Trump's gag rule could result in roughly 2.1 million unintended pregnancies, 720,000 unsafe abortions, and 5,600 avoidable maternal deaths by the time his term is up in 2020.
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Women living in countries with restrictive national laws face a double blow to their reproductive health wherever the global gag rule is imposed: they have fewer options to access contraceptive methods and even fewer chances to access safe abortions.
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But the biggest barrier to the initiative's success might be another Trump administration policy: the global gag rule, a federal directive that prevents organizations abroad from receiving money from the US government if they discuss, let alone perform, abortions.
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Why it matters: Planned Parenthood said in its statement that being "forced out" of Title X won't stop the organization from providing abortions and other family planning services and it will continue to fight the gag rule in court.
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A 2010 study from the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School found the much smaller global gag rule enacted under George W. Bush negatively affected Ethiopia's efforts to mitigate high rates of unsafe abortion.
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Under Trump's global gag rule, non-governmental groups working overseas to promote global health must now agree not to provide safe and legal abortion services and related information, or provide referrals for abortion — even using their own, non-U.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration's domestic gag rule on Title X family planning funds will soon result in the closure of two Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio, which is likely to mean patients going without contraceptive care and STI testing.
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The Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, is a US mandate that requires foreign organizations to pledge that they won't perform or promote abortion as a condition of receiving US funding for family planning programs.
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And, just one day after publicly honoring the inception of Women's Health Week, the Trump administration announced a plan for implementing a drastically expanded version of the global gag rule, a deadly anti-abortion policy that affects foreign NGOs.
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The "Mexico City Policy", also known as the "global gag rule", also led to more pregnancies and lower contraceptive use among women in African countries reliant on U.S. foreign aid, the study in the Lancet Global Health journal showed.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday reinstated a global gag rule that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, a move that was widely expected but nonetheless dismayed women's rights advocates.
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But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel — made up of Judges Edward Leavy, Consuelo Callahan, and Carlos Bea, who were all appointed by Republican presidents — ruled Thursday that the domestic gag rule is a "reasonable" interpretation of the law.
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Professional restrictions on diagnosing the mental health of public figures, which opponents refer to as a "gag rule," has long been a matter of contention within the mental health field—but it's become a particularly tense debate as of late.
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A panel of 3 federal appeals judges ruled on Thursday that a family planning "gag rule" could take effect immediately, withdrawing up to $60 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood and similar reproductive-care providers, the Washington Post reports.
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Wade; she's called the Alabama law an "existential threat to the human rights of women;" and she pledges to undo a gag rule the Trump administration instituted barring physicians who receive federal funding from providing patients with information about abortions.
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Pritzker, a Democrat, said the state would forgo all Title X funding from the federal government while the Republican administration continues to impose its restriction - decried by critics as a "gag rule" designed to silence doctor-patient communications about abortion options.
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"President Trump's gag rule undermines women's health care and threatens the providers that millions of women and girls rely on, and we will not let that stand in the state of Illinois," the first-year governor said in a statement.
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As Vox explains: The global gag rule has become something of a political seesaw since Ronald Reagan first implemented it in 1984 at a United Nations population conference in Mexico City (which is why it's also called the "Mexico City policy").
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Related: Cecile Richards & Hillary Clinton On The Threat To Reproductive Rights Under the policy, also known as the "global gag rule," organizations that receive any federal funding are not to use their own funds to pay for abortion-related programs.
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" She added: "I will continue to stand up to President Trump and Republican leadership in Congress who are intent on rolling back women's access to reproductive healthcare, and will introduce bipartisan legislation to repeal the Global Gag Rule for good.
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Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said the state would forgo all federal Title X funding while the Trump administration continues to impose its restriction - branded by critics as a "gag rule" designed to silence doctor-patient communications about abortion options.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A record number of women in U.S. Congress and pro-choice presidential contenders could strike back at a gag rule imposed by President Donald Trump, which has slashed access to abortion globally, a leading expert said.
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Frett spoke ahead of the release of a report by Planned Parenthood Global on the global gag rule, which blocks charities funded by U.S. aid and working abroad from providing legal abortions or referrals, or advocating for abortion law reform.
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During periods when the so-called global gag rule, which bars federal funding to overseas health care organizations that provide abortions, was active, researchers found, women in sub-Saharan Africa were less able to access birth control and had more pregnancies.
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A gag rule means that doctors and clinics who participate in government healthcare programs are prevented from providing, or even discussing, abortion with their patients - even when legal, even if the situation threatens the life or health of the woman.
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She said MSI expects the policy to cause an additional 22001 million abortions a year, because history shows that the global gag rule spikes the incidence of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, which increases the number of women who seek abortions.
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" The senator promised to "continue to stand up to President Trump and Republican leadership in Congress who are intent on rolling back women's access to reproductive healthcare, and will introduce bipartisan legislation to repeal the Global Gag Rule for good.
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In one of his first actions as U.S. president, Donald Trump reinstated a policy known by critics as the "global gag" rule, which withholds U.S. funding for international groups that perform abortions or tell women about legal options to do so.
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Afterward, she spoke with reporters at the Capitol Building about Trump's decision to reinstitute a U.S. policy—known as the "global gag rule" or "Mexico City policy"—that strips foreign NGOs of federal money if they educate people abroad about abortion.
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Not only will women's reproductive rights be affected around the world as a result, but overall well-being will take a hit because Trump expanded the gag rule to include global health organizations that offer treatment for malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV.
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"This 'gag rule' is not only unconscionable, but it undermines medical ethics by forcing health care professionals to withhold accurate and timely medical information from patients," said Dr. Jenn Conti, a fellow with the advocacy group Physicians for Reproductive Health.
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In January 2017, just days after he took office, Trump reinstated the "Mexico City Policy," sometimes referred to as a "global gag rule," that blocks US federal funding from going to international organizations that provide abortion counseling, referrals or services.
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The so-called global gag rule has put more than $8 billion of annual funding at risk, from clinics for HIV-affected sex workers in Ethiopia to programs aimed at curbing teen pregnancy in remote Uganda, campaigners have warned. 3.
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Given the history of reproductive coercion and injustice against black women and women of color, the domestic gag rule is a sobering reminder of the exacting ways regressive policies such as this continue to disparately impact health outcomes for our communities.
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So the global gag rule is best understood as an endorsement of intentions versus consequences: a declaration that the US is not going to be involved in anything that considers abortion a legitimate exercise, rather than a commitment to reducing abortions.
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That doesn't make up for Trump's cuts made by placing a "gag rule" banning the distribution of information on abortion on all groups receiving global health funding, but it's a relief given some prior indications that Trump would cut PEPFAR.
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Upon taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump moved quickly to reinstate and expand the Mexico City Policy, also known as the global gag rule, which prohibits federal funding for overseas NGOs that provide abortion services or information about abortion.
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A domestic gag rule would also be part of a larger pattern in the Trump administration, which has moved repeatedly over the past year and a half to restrict Americans' access to contraception, abortion, and accurate information about their health.
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For example, in one of his first actions as president, Donald Trump imposed the global gag rule, which bans foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from so much as talking about abortion if they want to receive U.S. foreign assistance for family planning.
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On Monday, Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy — known as the global gag rule — which prevents non-governmental organisations working abroad from receiving federal funding for family planning if they perform abortions or even talk to their clients about abortion.
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Some said the effect was compounded by the Trump administration's decision last January to reimpose what is known as the global gag rule, a Reagan-era restriction that denies American aid to health providers in other countries that offer abortion counseling.
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Administration officials say they plan to put in place a version of the so-called domestic gag rule, which would bar funding under the federal Title X family planning program for clinics that make abortion referrals or that provide abortions themselves.
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Shaheen, who appeared at Wednesday's event at the State Department and is co-authoring the W-GDP legislation, has worked to try to repeal the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, which the Trump administration has expanded.
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He argued that all petitions"should be received, whether they come from the wealthiest individuals in the land, or whether they come from the poorest or lowest in character," and he challenged the Gag Rule at every opportunity for years.
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"The Trump administration is frantically scrambling to try to fill the gaps in care created through its own unethical gag rule," said Jacqueline Ayers, Vice President of Government Relations & Public Policy at Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a statement.
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With a 7-85033 vote, the court upheld the gag rule, which requires Title X-funded family planning providers, including Planned Parenthood, maintain "clear financial and physical separation" from centers that perform abortions, and forbids providers from discussing abortion with patients.
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By prohibiting the provision of safe abortion services, or even abortion-related information or referrals, the Trump global gag rule runs roughshod over other nations' laws and instead imposes rigid prohibitions based on the Trump-Pence anti-choice, anti-woman agenda.
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Like every Democratic president in the past 35 years, the candidates (except Ms. Gabbard) have all pledged to repeal the Mexico City policy, or global gag rule, which blocks foreign aid to organizations that provide abortion referrals or promote abortion rights.
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With the promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump is poised to gut a key public health fund that accounts for 12 percent of the CDC's budget, and he's reinstated the global gag rule, which depletes global health funding.
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In January, President Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, known as the "global gag rule" among abortion rights activists, which bars funds for international non-government groups that advocate for abortion rights or even discuss abortion's role in family planning.
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These include codifying access to abortion in the federal statute, repealing the Hyde Amendment, reversing the Trump administration's gag rule, and passing a bill blocking states from enacting onerous anti-abortion restrictions such as the targeted regulations on abortion providers (TRAP) laws. Sen.
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A 2019 study in The Lancet found that, instead of reducing abortion, the gag rule actually caused a 40 percent increase in a country's typical abortion rate, a 14 percent decrease in the use of contraception and a 12 percent increase in pregnancies.
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Given its long straightforwardly partisan track record, Sandberg's statement against the global gag rule is far less controversial than denouncing any number of other truly very alarming things happening under Trump because her criticism is aimed at Pence and the GOP establishment.
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Within a day, Theriault's employer, Maine Family Planning, became the first Title X grant recipient to announce it would rather withdraw from the program than comply with what it sees as a "gag rule" on providers' ability to refer for a legal procedure.
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Cover image: Dr. Erin Berry, Washington State Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, holds a folder as she listens at a news conference announcing a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's Title X "gag rule" Monday, Feb.
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Now, with the gag rule expanded to all global health funding, over $9 billion of vital health programs are potentially at risk, including programs anchoring the decades-long effort to eradicate HIV/AIDS, as well as the more recent Ebola and Zika epidemics.
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The preliminary injunction bars enforcement nationwide of a policy that was due to go into effect on May 3 over the vehement objections of abortion supporters who have decried it as a "gag rule" designed to silence doctor-patient communications about abortion options.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule," the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy upon taking office, as President Obama did in 22019, and Republican presidents reinstating it.
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Dutch officials said Trump's decision to reinstate the ban, known as the "Mexico City Policy" or the international gag rule by critics, will reduce international funding for abortion services in developing countries by $600 million over the next four years, according to Reuters.
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A 19843-country study from Stanford examining the Global Gag Rule in sub-Saharan Africa found that countries with "high exposure" to the policy experienced a relative decline in the use of modern contraceptives and an increase in the induced abortion rate.
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Exacerbating matters, the budget cuts that come with refusing to comply with the global gag rule limit NGO's capacity to make contraceptives available—increasing the demand for abortion and the likelihood that women will resort to unsafe, illegal methods of terminating their pregnancies.
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Eran Bendavid and colleagues found in a study published in 28500 in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization that the induced abortion rate increased in sub-Saharan African countries where U.S. support was cut most due to the global gag rule.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in the U.S. Congress took formal steps on Thursday to lift a gag rule imposed by President Donald Trump that has slashed access to abortion globally, introducing legislation that would permanently shut down the controversial policy.
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Like his imposition of the global gag rule during his first days in office, President Trump's decision to cut off support to the UNFPA will strip people in the poorest parts of the world of the reproductive healthcare they so desperately need.
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He has also reinstated the gag rule on international agencies that provide abortion counseling, appointed figures like Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and signed a law that will allow states to deny funding to Planned Parenthood.
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President Trump reinstated the so-called global gag rule on Monday — an anti-abortion foreign aid restriction so extreme that it will likely cause thousands of maternal deaths worldwide and deprive millions of women access to safe abortion as well as birth control.
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Trump's version of the gag rule will apply to roughly $9.5 billion dollars in global health funding, as opposed to roughly $575 million in family planning and reproductive health funding, according to Population Action International (PAI), a global family planning advocacy organization.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services warning of the potentially disastrous impact of a domestic gag rule; more than a hundred members of the House sent a similar letter.
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So on Monday, the group announced that it would be leaving Title X. Planned Parenthood has said the gag rule is both unethical and illegal, violating laws requiring that Title X patients get unbiased counseling about all their options for a pregnancy.
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Like the global gag rule (or "Mexico City Policy"), which denies global health organizations the right to even discuss abortion as a condition for receiving US aid money, defunding the UNFPA is done, traditionally, by Republican administrations catering to a conservative base.
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Rather than comply with the administration's decree that these providers no longer refer patients for abortions — which reproductive health advocates say amount to an unethical "gag rule" — state health departments and individual organizations across the country have decided to leave the program entirely.
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Planned Parenthood announced Monday that it will withdraw from the $286 million federal family planning program known as Title X to avoid complying with the Trump administration's "gag rule," which bars groups that offer abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funding.
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In Uganda, hundreds of thousands of women stand to lose access to antenatal care, cancer screenings, reproductive health, family planning and HIV treatment under the expanded Global Gag Rule; and in Kenya, outreach services reaching more than 75,000 women have already been terminated.
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Little told me it's not clear whether the SEC has ever taken action against a former defendant for breaching the gag rule, but said the rule's threat – of reopening the defendant's case – is so onerous a condition that it's against public policy.
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Other targeted administration policies include a push to shut down Planned Parenthood centers, which the signers argue will decrease access to women's healthcare, and the decision to strengthen the "global gag rule" that prohibits any organization that receives American aid from funding abortions.
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When Mr. Trump signed the global "gag rule," which pulls United States funding from organizations abroad that so much as mention the word "abortion" (even organizations that don't provide abortions), he did it flanked by a half-dozen white men in suits.
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Under this revised language -- what advocates have deemed the "domestic gag rule" -- doctors who work at clinics that receive Title X funds are prohibited from mentioning the option of abortion to their patients or referring their patients to clinics that provide abortion care.
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"That is why some advocates call it the global gag rule, because it is policing speech as well as access to healthcare," said Jennifer Kates, vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a policy group.
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The so-called Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, was established by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, and has since been supported by every Republican president and opposed by every Democratic one; Barack Obama renounced it in 2009.
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Mr. Trump's gag rule goes far beyond the 1973 ban to bar funding to all organizations that provide abortion or abortion referrals, even if they do so with their own funds and even if abortion is not the focus of their work.
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"Trump's Global Gag Rule impacts about 15 times more U.S. funding and also extends the reach of restrictions beyond NGO grants and cooperative agreements to contracts," the Population Action International, a global family planning and reproductive health group, said in a statement.
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Over half of President Trump's Global Development Council, an Obama-era forum on foreign aid, resigned by the beginning of February, with one member citing the administration's "gag rule" on U.S.-funded organizations from speaking about abortion as his reason for leaving.
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He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, The New York Times reported; imposed a hiring freeze for civilian agencies, USA Today reported; and reinstated the global gag rule, according to The Hill, which prohibits federal funding for international family planning organizations. 6.
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A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Trump administration's "domestic gag rule," which blocks health providers that offer abortion care or even discuss it from receiving federal funding via Title X, can go into effect immediately.
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In one of his first presidential memos on January 23, 2017, President Trump moved to expand the Global Gag Rule, which cuts off international funding to healthcare organizations that provide contraceptive care or recommend abortions, even in the case of saving the mother's life.
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Named after the venue of the conference where it was first announced by President Ronald Reagan in 252, the Mexico City Policy, also known as the "global gag rule" withholds American aid (USAID) from any international non-governmental organizations that offer women advice on abortion.
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Like previous Republican presidents, Trump has reintroduced and now expanded the reach of the so-called Mexico City policy, also known as the "global gag rule," which mandates US funding withdrawals from any international non-governmental group that gives advice or helps women access abortions.
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Women have organized postcard writing campaigns against nominations, such that of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and sent countless letters to the editor after the reinstatement -- and expansion of -- the global gag rule, which restricts aid to women's and men's health organizations around the world.
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Planned Parenthood, which provides care to about 40 percent of the 4 million low-income people who use Title X, has already repeatedly said it will leave the program rather than comply with what its head, Leana Wen, calls a "gag rule" on physicians.
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One of the first executive orders Trump signed after taking office reinstated the global gag rule, a policy that prohibits the U.S. government from providing funds to any international organizations that provide abortions, or even mention abortion as an option to women they serve.
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The organizations already can't use US aid money to cover abortions thanks to the Helms Amendment; the policy is known as a "gag rule" because if groups accept US funding they're essentially prohibited from talking about abortion or using private funds to cover abortions.
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And Americans agree: 59 percent of likely American voters said they oppose policies, like the global gag rule, that ban U.S. health assistance to organizations in other countries that provide abortions or referrals, according to a 85033 Center for Health and Gender Equity poll.
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Perhaps using his first week to begin construction of a border wall, halt refugee immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, announce plans to roll back the Affordable Care Act, and reinstate a "global gag rule" around abortion may have had something to do with it.
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Several states and reproductive health groups sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over the Trump administration's changes to Title X and argued they amounted to a "gag rule" on doctors that could decimate reproductive healthcare providers and force clinics to close.
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The White House is reportedly considering a domestic gag rule that would essentially apply the restrictions of the global rule to providers that receive federal Title X funds, which help low-income patients get services like contraceptive counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections.
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Not only did Trump reinstate this restrictive policy, he expanded it to cover all global health funding, so even funding for health services such as maternal and child health and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment is subject to the terms of the global gag rule.
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This proposal, aimed at Planned Parenthood, is a clear suppression of free speech that flies in the face of the robust First Amendment that has evolved since the Supreme Court, by a 803 to 4 vote, upheld an earlier abortion gag rule 27 years ago.
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READ: Women's clinics are facing an impossible choice as a result of Trump's 'gag rule' Alabama passed a law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state, except in the case of a pregnancy that posed a "serious health risk" to the mother's life.
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Even if one is not swayed by the strong evidence that comprehensive reproductive health services are critical for women's health and for societies, supersizing the global gag rule threatens America's security and may harm the global economy and stability if a pandemic should strike.
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According to reproductive rights activists and some major medical groups, the policy represents a "domestic gag rule" — an extension of the "global gag rule" that blocks U.S. foreign aid dollars from going to health clinics in other countries that even mention abortion as an option — because it essentially applies the same rules to providers who receive federal funds through a program known as Title X. They say the rule could force reproductive health providers to choose between providing abortions or referring for abortion, or losing these crucial Title X funds, which are dedicated to helping low-income people access birth control and other services like STI testing and treatment.
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As one of his very first acts in office, Trump tightly constricted abortion access around the world with the signing of an extra extreme iteration of the Global Gag Rule, which banned nonprofits that perform abortions or even associate with abortion providers from receiving U.S. aid.
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Sandberg had not objected to the Trump administration — clearly an affront to her values, the values that have sold more than two million copies of Lean In — but late this week she posted on her platform of choice to decry Trump's day one expanded global gag rule.
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Trump has since taken matters into his own hands, announcing plans to reintroduce a Reagan-era domestic gag rule rule that would block federal family planning grants from going toward organizations that perform abortions or provide any information on the procedure or its availability to patients.
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" Photo by Kyle Casey Chu "On January 23, President Tiny Hands Trump reinstated and expanded the Reagan-Bush Mexico City Policy (AKA 'the global gag rule') that restricts family planning organizations who receive federal funding from offering information about or even discussing abortions with their patients.
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In 1984, the Reagan administration intensified that policy with what has since come to be known as the global gag rule, which prevents foreign health nonprofits that receive U.S. funds from even mentioning abortion—even if a patient asks about it, and even if it's legal.
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President Trump didn't make abortion a key campaign issue, and he barely mentioned reinstating the Mexico City policy (often referred to by pro-choice advocates as the global gag rule) — a policy dating back to the Reagan administration, which governs US funding for international health efforts.
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Trump put the global gag rule back into effect on the third day of his presidency and expanded it beyond his Republican predecessors' versions by revoking funds from all US agencies, rather than just those from the United States Agency for International Development, as was typical.
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One of Mr. Bush's first official acts as president in January 2001 was to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, a global gag rule put in place under Mr. Reagan that withholds American aid from health organizations worldwide that provide or even discuss abortion in family planning.
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But there is a difference: While the 1988 regulations specifically barred Title X facilities from even mentioning abortion as an option for pregnant women — a prohibition that came to be known as the "domestic gag rule" — the version proposed this week does not ban such counseling.
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It has been illegal to fund abortions as a method of family planning with U.S. money since 1973, but the gag rule pulls other family planning funding — for H.I.V. prevention or contraception, for example — if an organization even advises a patient on where to get an abortion.
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But the gag rule was not the only unusual requirement Judge Alsup imposed on the fund: He also instructed the official, executive director Mark Lawson, to conduct a competition for plaintiffs' firms that want to represent the St. Louis pension fund in the securities class action.
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It's a manifestation on American soil of the "global gag rule" (also called the Mexico City policy), which Trump reinstated in one of his first acts as president, and which prevents foreign organizations receiving US government funding or assistance from providing abortion referrals, information or services.
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Just last month, a new "domestic gag rule" resulted in dramatically curtailed government spending on access to family planning in the US. Forty percent of the 4 million Americans who access contraception through the only federal family planning program, Title X, access it through Planned Parenthood.
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Before that, as a good Jacksonian (he was dubbed "Young Hickory"), Polk had served as speaker of the House of Representatives, where his distinguished accomplishment was the passage of an unconstitutional "gag rule" to table those annoying petitions against slavery, which Northern women in particular considered immoral.
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At the city&aposs Senate Square, about 20 male "pregnant Trumps" and 20 women wearing pink gags railed against a Trump order reinstating what critics call a "global gag rule" that bans providing federal money to international family-planning groups that perform abortions or provide information about them.
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Just one week in, the Trump administration has already made abortion a priority with an executive order to reinstate the so-called global gag rule, which stops US foreign aid from going to nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion services or even suggest abortion as a family planning option.
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He says that in addition to increasing the budget for Title X family planning — which has dropped from roughly $22018 million in 2115 to $212 million now — he would reverse Trump's "gag rule," which bans doctors from telling women how they can safely and legally access an abortion.
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This is happening against the backdrop of Trump's reinstating of the global gag rule, which blocks federal aid to organizations that provide abortion or abortion counseling — and in practice, also prevents them from providing a range of critical health and sexual-education services for women in developing countries.
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One of Trump's first actions in office was to sign an executive order reinstating the global gag rule, which is typical of Republican presidents; however, the Trump administration went even further than their predecessors, vastly expanding the policy's scope in a stunning blow to women's rights around the world.
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Because it silences the very people best-situated to level criticism of how the government works through the SEC, the gag rule impairs the First Amendment's right to petition for regulatory reform and the concomitant right of the public to know what is going on in federal agencies. Sen.
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It is also likely that the Court could ultimately take up the newly proposed domestic gag rule and other efforts to dramatically damage the nation's only publicly funded family planning program, Title X. If implemented these policies would make low-income women's access to birth control even more difficult.
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What the gag rule entailsAccording to a memo released by HHS in May 2018, the new policy will bar clinics that provide abortions along with other family planning services from receiving any Title X funding at all, even though none of that funding directly goes toward abortions services.
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When Trump first reinstated the Global Gag Rule as one of his first executive orders in office in 85033, he applied it to an unprecedented amount of global health assistance funds, resulting in devastating impacts on groups that work on everything from water and sanitation to HIV and AIDS.
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Outside of the U.S., the global gag rule, recently reinstated and expanded by President Trump via executive order, prohibits international organizations from receiving U.S. global health assistance if they provide, counsel, refer or even advocate for abortion services — even if they do so with their own, non-U.
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After Obama lifted the gag rule in 2009, PAI director of advocacy Jonathan Rucks told Vox, large international family planning organizations like Marie Stopes International and the International Planned Parenthood Federation were able to bring crucial contraceptive services to areas like West Africa that were poorly served before.
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Separately in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city's public health system will stop participating in the federal Title X program for as long as a "gag rule" is in effect that prevents medical providers from sharing information and counseling about abortion with their patients.
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In a note to readers that accompanied advance copies of the book, Erdrich writes that she began the novel in 2002, a year after her youngest daughter was born, when she felt things seemed to be "moving backward" with the war in Iraq and the global gag rule.
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It has been less than two weeks under Donald Trump's America, and he has already taken steps to bar many Muslims from entering the United States, deport illegal immigrants, reinstate the abortion gag rule, have a wall built on the Mexican border and reconsider the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Worse, Trump expanded this "global gag rule" — as critics call it, because it bars groups from mentioning abortion — so that it apparently will cover all kinds of health services, including efforts to tackle polio or Zika or H.I.V., even programs to help women who have been trafficked into brothels.
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Yes, Donald Trump and his antics take up a lot of air and attention, and we're certain he will continue to use his executive power to undermine our rights through measures like the global gag rule, which bans organizations receiving federal funding from even discussing abortion as a healthcare option.
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"The Trump-Pence administration's gag rule is unethical, illegal, and harmful to public health, which is why Planned Parenthood is joining together with the American Medical Association to sue to protect patients' rights and access to health care," Leana Wen, MD, president of Planned Parenthood said in statement emailed to Refinery29.
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Women's health and HIV/AIDS organizations felt, justifiably, that the global gag rule made it impossible to engage in family planning and HIV prevention efforts, and many American groups that accepted US government funds after acceding to the rules were denied access to international meetings, shunned by counterpart non-American groups.
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It is imperative that we call on our legislators and hold them accountable to push back on the Title X gag rule and the Kavanaugh nomination, while supporting our local sexual and reproductive healthcare centers, like Planned Parenthood of New York City, that are helping to keep us safe and healthy.
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The Trump-Pence administration has proposed a gag rule to prevent doctors and nurses who participate in the Title X program from telling patients all their options when it comes to pregnancy, which could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing access to preventive care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
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We want to see clear plans for how they'll protect reproductive freedom, address the disparities in abortion access, end a backwards policy that allows health care providers to discriminate against women and LGBTQ+ people by refusing to provide care, and take a stand against the domestic and global gag rule.
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"As we have said before, we will not comply with the Trump-Pence administration's gag rule and we will not compromise our patients' ability to get the best care," Jacqueline Ayers, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's vice president of government relations and public policy, told VICE News in a statement.
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There's the grabbing-them-by-the-genitalia comment that would have disqualified almost anyone else from running for office, the reinstatement of the global gag rule, the whiter-than-white and almost all-male cabinet, and of course the immigration-policy proposal to separate mothers and children at the border.
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Religious groups like the Catholic Medical Association approve of a series of actions Trump has taken, beginning with his appointment of judges who oppose abortion rights, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Trump's reinstatement of the global "gag rule" that bars federal funding for nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion referrals.
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Clinton's post contained a retweet of a statement from Planned Parenthood, which called the ruling a "devastating blow to the 4 million patients who obtain birth control, cancer screenings, and other essential care through Title X." BREAKING: A federal court just allowed the Title X gag rule to go into effect.
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Trump's first round of executive orders were surprisingly consistent with what you might see from any other Republican president: a splashy but vague order on implementing Obamacare, a federal hiring freeze, and a reinstatement of the "global gag rule," an anti-abortion funding rule that's existed under past Republican administrations.
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Also on Tuesday, a Senate Appropriations panel work session was abruptly canceled because of a dispute over an attempt by Democrats to reverse a new Trump administration "gag rule" that blocks medical providers receiving federal funding, such as Planned Parenthood, from talking to patients about abortion if they inquire about it.
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Though Mr. Trump's proposal to reduce funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, by $1 billion was rejected by both the House and the Senate appropriations committees, the administration's version of the global gag rule — which is a dramatic expansion of previous iterations — remains in effect.
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Last year, the Trump administration imposed an unethical gag rule on Title X, the nation's program for affordable birth control, the 240-year old program which helped ensure millions of people who were struggling to make ends meet could still afford birth control, cancer screenings, and other reproductive health care.
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This so-called "gag rule" was upheld by the Supreme Court, although my firm subsequently got it rescinded through separate litigation just before Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonThe magic of majority rule in elections The return of Ken Starr Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress MORE took office.
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" Vicki Saporta, president and chief executive of the National Abortion Federation, a Washington-based advocacy group for abortion rights, said in a statement, "President Trump's decision to reinstate the global gag rule will endanger already vulnerable women by further curtailing their access to accurate information and safe reproductive health care services.
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We can expect a replay of the Reagan-Bush eras, with drastic funding cuts, reimposition of the global gag rule, which banned funding to oversees organizations that offered abortion advice or services, and a prohibition of aid to the United Nations Population Fund — the world's largest multilateral provider of family planning.
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As the public now weighs in on the proposed regulations, we should not forget that not only is the new gag rule harmful, but that the existing restrictions governing Title X and abortion care should be lifted as well because they are bad for patients and bad for public health.
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The panel of three Republican-appointed judges in the San Francisco-based court said the so-called abortion gag rule from the Department of Health and Human Services can go into effect pending the outcome of an appeal of three lower court rulings blocking the changes to Title X from going into effect.
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The report, titled "The State of the World's Human Rights," singles out Trump for a range of reasons, from his so-called Muslim travel ban to the push for a border wall with Mexico, and the "global gag rule" stripping funding from organizations operating overseas that have anything to do with abortion.
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Religious groups like the Catholic Medical Association approve of a series of actions Trump has taken, beginning with his appointment of judges who oppose abortion rights, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Trump&aposs reinstatement of the global "gag rule" that bars federal funding for nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion referrals.
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From expanding the Global Gag Rule to appointing anti-abortion activists and peddlers of alternative facts to key positions in the Department of Health and Human Services, President Trump and this Congress have proven they are dedicated to implementing policies that threaten a woman's health and ability to exercise her constitutional rights.
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"Trump's global gag rule will obstruct and destroy the work of health care providers who are often women's main — and sometimes only — source for reproductive health care, and their entry point for receiving a wide range of primary health care services," said Suzanne Ehlers, president and CEO of PAI, in a statement.
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While it's not clear what the specific details of a Trump domestic gag rule would be, reproductive health groups think it would probably bar health centers that get Title X funds from performing abortions, referring patients elsewhere for abortions, or discussing abortion as a possible option when a patient has an unplanned pregnancy.
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In a landmark Stanford University study of 20 sub-Saharan African countries between 2001 to 2008 (when the Global Gag Rule was in effect during the George W. Bush administration), researchers found that the number of women having induced abortions more than doubled in countries that were most impacted by the policy.
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Days after being sworn in, he signed an executive order reinstating the so-called Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which blocks United States funding from going to any nongovernmental organization around the world that provides abortion counseling, even if the money is not used for abortion-related services.
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But for the past several years, the Trump administration has sought to restrict access to high-quality care at every turn, most recently through a domestic "gag rule" that threatens to cut 4 million people off from Title X's contraception and other preventive health care entirely, creating an urgent public health crisis.
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In our conversation, she was scathing in denouncing Trump's version of the "global gag rule," which cuts off money for any health provider abroad that offers abortion counseling or promotes abortion rights, and Trump's plan to defund the United Nations Population Fund, which battles maternal mortality and helps women get access to contraception.
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They claim this isn't a gag rule, but given how broadly the new Title X guidelines are written—"A Title X project may not perform, promote, refer for, or support abortion as a method of family planning"—most providers consider themselves gagged because they can't risk losing their federal funding over any discussion of abortion.
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In a White House that has, in less than 100 days, cut back funding to Planned Parenthood, reinstated and expanded the anti-women global gag rule, and generally proven itself disrespectful to women at large (truly too many examples to source just one, but we'll toss in a quick #tbt to this Angela Merkel gaffe).
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And today—two days after a sea of women inundated the streets of Washington, DC, bearing signs that promised we won't turn back the clock on women's rights—Trump reinstated the global gag rule, a harmful and life-threatening policy that bars US funding from going to foreign aid groups that even discuss abortion.
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Earlier this month, she gave some advice to Planned Parenthood about spreading their message, and now she's partnered with the Center for Health and Gender Equity to combat the Global Gag Rule, a policy that prohibits organizations that are federally funded from using their funds for abortion-related programs, or even providing advice or referrals.
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The Hyde Amendment already prevents any federal dollars from going toward abortions, but the gag rule would have a significant impact on groups like Planned Parenthood, which would have to choose between ending abortion services or losing out on funding that helps cover low-income patients' birth control, wellness exams, cancer screenings, and STD testing.
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According to Center for American Progress, its effects extend to all areas of reproductive care: Furthermore, Trump not only reinstated the global gag rule, but also expanded the funding it effects almost fifteen-fold, so much so that reproductive health advocates say the legislation may result in the suffering and deaths of millions of women.
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Biden also promised to end Trump's travel ban, undo the global gag rule that blocks federal funding from going to any NGOs around the world that provide abortion services, rehabilitate the NATO alliance, and restore daily press briefings in the White House, State Department, and Department of Defense, which have become scarce under Trump.
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Although critics will argue Trump's pivot to being pro-life was purely opportunistic, he has in fact been keeping his word: He expanded the global gag rule, which blocks federal aid to foreign organizations that provide abortions; nominated two anti-choice justices to the U.S. Supreme Court; and has continued Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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MORE: Live updates on Trump's first 100 days in office Breakingviews: Nordstrom handed a presidential gift certificate Golf diplomacy: Trump and Abe tee off The Netherlands announced in January the launch of a global fund to help women access abortion services, saying Trump's "global gag rule" would cause a funding shortfall of $600 million over the next four years.
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Reproductive Rights Performance: In his first 100 days in office alone, Trump —among other things — reinstated the global gag rule, defunded the United Nations Population Fund, appointed a Supreme Court justice likely to rule against abortion access, and reversed Obama's Title X family planning protections allowing states to withhold money from clinics that perform abortion procedures.
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This iteration of the global gag rule has lasted two years too many — and Congress should act quickly to pass the Global HER Act and restore crucial support to health providers and the people they serve around the world Let us work together to build a culture that genuinely values the lives of people around the world.
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But two particular moments especially hit home for her: last October, when she heard Trump's now notorious leaked recording in which he advocates for sexually assaulting a woman; and in January, when Trump signed an executive action that reinstated the global gag rule, which forbids foreign NGOs that receive US funding from so much as speaking about abortion.
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Considering the fact that Planned Parenthood alone serves over 40 percent of the Title X patient population, the gag rule will most certainly lead to gaps in coverage, and by extension, low income individuals who are living with or at risk of contracting HIV will be unable to access screenings and care that they desperately need.
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Visit INSIDER's homepage for more storiesRead more: The funding loss impacts more than just Planned ParenthoodAs a result of the gag rule, a variety of organizations that provide abortion information, services, or referrals will not be able to provide low-cost birth control through Title X, which Grant said is a crucial piece of long-term reproductive health.
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"Trump's Global Gag Rule will obstruct and destroy the work of healthcare providers who are often women's main — and sometimes only — source for reproductive healthcare, and their entry point for receiving a wide range of primary healthcare services," Suzanne Ehlers, the president of PAI, a global reproductive rights organization that opposes the policy, said in a statement.
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With President Trump's proposed 30%-plus cut to USAID, the elimination of the budget for the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues, and the reinstitution of the global gag rule which effectively limits the availability of contraception in the developing world, it's difficult to understand how this new fund is part of a coherent strategy to advance women's empowerment.
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In what is largely seen as a gift to his anti-abortion base, Trump expanded the Gag Rule, and this week his State Department broadened the order, which strips US funds from any organization abroad that so much as mentions abortion as an option for women -- even groups that don't provide abortions at all but simply tell women their legal rights.
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Since taking office, the Trump-Pence administration has pushed policy after policy meant to strip us of our basic health and rights, including attacks on the Affordable Care Act, gutting the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, letting bosses deny women birth control, and just recently a gag rule on providers in the Title X program for affordable birth control and reproductive health care.
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She and whoever succeeds her as permanent president will have to contend with the near-total bans, now being challenged in court, as well as the Trump administration's "domestic gag rule" barring Planned Parenthood and any other organization that performs abortions from receiving federal family planning funds under Title X. Planned Parenthood is fighting that rule in court as well.
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A little less than a year later, Democrats used their new House majority to pass a spending bill that challenged the one of the Trump administration's most wide-reaching abortion restrictions: the global gag rule, a law that bans U.S. funding from going to international organizations that provide abortion services or even discuss abortion as a form of reproductive health care.
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Both the International Planned Parenthood Federation, of which Profamilia is a member associate, and Marie Stopes International, of which Marie Stopes Madagascar is a part, are large international family planning organizations that have said they will not agree to the conditions of the gag rule, because safe abortion is an important part of women's health care that they cannot simply stop offering worldwide.
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The bill now has a record number of co-sponsors, including many of our newer colleagues who have worked overseas and seen for themselves the challenges of providing health care abroad, and support from a long list of diverse organizations that know the Global Gag Rule is bad for global health, bad for human rights, and bad for gender equality.
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Under Republican administrations, though, this funding has been subject since Reagan to the so-called "Mexico City Policy" (also known as the "global gag rule"), where funding is unavailable to any institution that provides abortions, refers patients to other organizations that provides abortions, or offers women counseling about their options that includes the information that abortion is legal in their country.
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These amendments included protecting free birth control coverage; maintaining Title X family planning funding; and striking the expansion of the Global Gag Rule and the ban on funding for the United Nations Population Fund, our primary partner for ensuring that women fleeing violence have safe maternal care and access to treatment from gender-based violence, like that perpetrated by ISIS.
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Elizabeth Warren has proposed a platform that calls for Congress to pass a group of federal laws protecting access to reproductive care even if Roe falls, including codifying access to abortion in the federal statute, repealing the Hyde Amendment, reversing the Trump administration's gag rule, and passing a bill blocking states from enacting onerous anti-abortion restrictions such as the targeted regulations on abortion providers (TRAP) laws.
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This month marks three years since the administration re-instated an expanded Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), informally known as the "Global Gag Rule," which blocks or gags, U.S. global health assistance to any foreign non-governmental organizations that provide, counsel, refer, or advocate for abortion services — even if they provide these services with their own funding or if abortion is allowed in their countries.
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Organizations should not be disqualified from receiving U.S. assistance because they use their own funds to provide health services and information that are legal in their home country and legal in the U.S. Supporters of global health and development, women's rights, gender equality and free speech oppose the harmful global gag rule and reject efforts to undermine the health and rights of women around the world.
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Watch: The Unstoppable Wendy Davis on the Fight for Abortion Rights And after a photo of Trump signing the executive order reinstating the gag rule while a cluster of men looked on approvingly went viral—for the notable reason that not a single woman was present at the signing—Sweden responded with an image that was widely interpreted to poke fun at the US president.
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In return for their support, Bush empowered evangelicals and marshalled the state's power in support of their pet causes: He pumped funds into abstinence-only sex education; re-imposed the global gag rule, which bans federally-funded international non-governmental organizations from even informing beneficiaries about abortion and contraception; and launched a faith-based initiatives program that provided federal funds to religious bodies that provide social services.
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In his first year in office, he's provided the anti-abortion movement with win after win—reinstating and expanding the Global Gag Rule, which denies US aid to any organization that so much as discusses abortion; appointed extremely anti-choice justices to the Supreme Court and federal courts across the country; and filled the Department of Health and Human Services with anti-abortion and anti-contraception extremists.
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Audi's ad is pretty clearly feminist in how it addresses sexism: Even Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, a series that has been in production for months, appears to shine an apocalyptic light on how GOP policies like the global gag rule and threats to defund Planned Parenthood might affect women in the long run: All this being said, some companies did go out of their way to take jabs at the president.
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Referred to by critics as the "global gag rule," the policy has been subjected to a game of political football over the years, with Democratic presidents rescinding the policy upon taking office, as President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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As we work with fellow appropriators to negotiate federal spending bills for FY2019, we are offering four amendments to the foreign aid bill: one to reverse and permanently prohibit the Global Gag Rule, one to restore critical funding to UNFPA, one to preserve funding for international family planning programs, and one to require the State Department to include information on reproductive health in their annual human rights reports.
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Just last week Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCotton warns China: Crackdown on Hong Kong would be 'grave miscalculation' Pompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests Pompeo acknowledges 'places where ISIS is more powerful today' MORE took steps to dramatically expand the implementation of the Global Gag Rule — a policy that prohibits foreign nongovernmental organizations who receive U.S. federal aid from performing or providing information on abortion.
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We've seen that in his reinstatement of the global gag rule, which bars foreign aid funding to groups abroad that discuss abortion as a method of family planning; his promise to sign a federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks; and his appointment of E. Scott Lloyd, the anti-abortion director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement who tried to bar a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant from getting an abortion.
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In one of his first executive actions as president, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday imposed an expanded version of the already harmful global gag rule, also known as the Mexico City policy.
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The Trump administration's attack on birth control is only the latest in a series, including a gag rule and other changes to Title X, the nation's only program for affordable birth control and other reproductive health care; changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which we fought in Baltimore (and won); and efforts to block people who rely on Medicaid from coming to Planned Parenthood for preventive health care, including birth control.
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President Trump has worked to restrict abortions since his first days in office by expanding the so-called global gag rule, which withholds American funding from international organizations that discuss or perform abortions; taking aim at Planned Parenthood funding; and appointing several leaders who are anti-abortion, including E. Scott Lloyd, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the health department, and one of the defendants in the Jane Doe case.
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By reinstating and massively expanding the Global Gag Rule in January 2017, defunding the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) just a few months later, and proposing to cut funding for international reproductive health and family planning in half -- what would be a more than $300 million decline -- the Trump administration has created a perfect storm that jeopardizes the health and rights of millions of the world's most marginalized women and families and threatens global economic progress.
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It turns out we have plenty to be mad about: The Global Gag Rule; three separate bills in Congress to block Medicaid patients from coming to Planned Parenthood for care; a government official's dogged attempts to use the power of the federal government to stop young immigrant women from accessing safe and legal abortion; no accountability for the sexual predator holding the highest office in our country; attacks on the communities we serve, especially immigrants and people of color.
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As two members of Congress committed to a strong U.S. foreign policy and the effective provision of foreign assistance, we are deeply troubled by what we see around the world three years after President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats outraged over White House lawyer's claim that some foreign involvement in elections is acceptable Senators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session White House announces task force to monitor coronavirus MORE implemented and radically expanded the disastrous Global Gag Rule on Jan.
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Last month, a panel of three Republican-appointed judges in the San Francisco-based court said the so-called abortion gag rule from the Department of Health and Human Services could go into effect pending the outcome of an appeal of three lower court rulings blocking the changes to Title X. The challengers to the administration -- which include more than 20 states, Planned Parenthood and the American Medical Association -- filed for an en banc court featuring 11 of the court's judges to rehear the case last month.
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In just his first week as America's 20093th president, Mr Trump signed executive orders and memoranda freezing federal hiring, backing out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, defunding "sanctuary cities" that protect unauthorised immigrants, undermining Obamacare, restoring the "global gag rule" on abortion counselling, restarting the construction of two controversial oil pipelines through Native American lands, building a wall on the nation's southern border, blocking Syrian refugees and residents of several majority-Muslim countries from immigrating to the United States and slashing regulations on businesses.
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Then they move through the various crises and compromises that followed: the Fugitive Slave Act of 21862, the outlawing of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 2200, the Missouri crisis of 2000 to 18623, the growing anti-slavery movement, the gag rule controversies of the 21862s and '21s, the arguments over fugitive slaves, the Mexican War and its consequences for the spread of slavery, the Compromise of 21863, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the rise of the Republican Party, the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the coming of the war.
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Aside from a bill supporting paid maternity leave, said to be influenced by daughter Ivanka, the Trump administration stands apart for taking things away from women, or excluding them from the process: So far, Trump and his administration have: Appointed two men to advise the president on what women need in the workplace Indicated during the campaign that he believes women should be punished for getting abortions Invited only three women to participate in his 17-person business advisory panel Declined to publicly consult with any women in his healthcare policy meetings Signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule, which bans international healthcare providers receiving federal funds from providing abortion care to women.
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Although Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood via legislation have failed repeatedly, the Trump Administration has issued multiple rules or executive orders that undermine women's rights: This includes the reversal of the birth control insurance coverage mandate that came down in October of last year (which was blocked by a judge in December and is tied up in the courts); the blockage or reversal of many teen pregnancy prevention grants (which was blocked by a Federal judge last month); the multiple attempts by director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Scott Lloyd to block detained migrant women from abortion care; the stacking of federal court benches with virulent anti-choice, anti-women's rights judges; and of course this also includes the Global Gag Rule, which Trump reinstated as one of his first acts in office.
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