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increase font size Biden to drop Trump’s antiabortion ‘global gag rule.’ Here’s what that means for abortion access worldwide. The decades of Washington-imposed whiplash have left sexual and reproductive health and rights programs around the world scrambling to secure funding. By Miriam BergerWashington Post Share Soon after he took office, President Donald Trump reinstated and expanded a policy known by its critics as the “global gag rule,” which bars U.S. funding for organizations abroad that perform abortions – or offer information about them. On Thursday, a week into his p...

Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration. The memorandum will “reverse my predecessor’s attack on women’s health access,” Biden told reporters during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office. He added that the measure “relates to protecting women’s health at home and abroad, and it reinstates the changes that were made to Title X and other things making it harder for women to hav...

On January 28, President Biden will revoke the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy—allowing billions of dollars in American foreign aid to flood the developing world for funding abortions. In place since January 2017, the Protecting Life Policy (an expansion of the former Mexico City Policy) prevents foreign organizations that perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning from receiving global health funds from the U.S. government.  With the U.S. awarding approximately $10 billion for global health annually, the Policy’s impact on recipient countries is immens...

The Biden Administration Is Repealing the Global Gag Rule. That’s Not Enough. Slate 1/28/2021 Joshua Keating © Provided by Slate Activists from the Population Connection Action Fund project a message onto the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Jan. 23, 2019. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images On Thursday, Joe Biden is expected to participate in what’s become a regular post-inauguration ritual for U.S. presidents by signing an executive order repealing the Mexico City Policy, known by its opponents as the global gag rule, which prohibits U.S. funding to for...

Biden to sign memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions President Joe Biden will sign a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration, ​according to the Biden administration. Biden will be fulfilling a campaign promise in the memorandum, rescinding the so-called Mexico City Policy, a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions. The Trump administration reinstated the restriction in 2017 by presidential memorandum and then extended ...