NEW YORK― Women’s health clinics from Iowa to Kenya have been forced to close their doors. International nonprofits have lost the ability to provide birth control, HIV testing and fistula surgeries in the poorest communities around the world. In a single year, President Donald Trump has already decimated reproductive rights and access to family planning in the U.S. and around the globe. “Girls aren’t able to get contraception, and they’re starting to come back pregnant, suicidal, bereft,” said Lisa Shannon, a global women’s rights advocate who works with reproductive health clinics in East Africa. In April, Trump signed an executive order giving states the okay to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest family planning provider.

Source: Huffington Post January 20, 2018 17:15 UTC