By Jamila Taylor and Jonathan Rucks |A little more than one year ago, President Donald Trump imposed and expanded the Global Gag Rule. The Global Gag Rule is a policy that has historically blocked foreign nongovernmental organizations that engage in abortion advocacy or offer abortion-related information, referrals, and services, from receiving U.S. international family planning funding. Yet Trump’s expansion has gone well beyond the confines of its already-harmful previous scope to encompass all U.S. global health assistance. Shortly after imposing the Global Gag Rule, President Trump defunded the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), the primary U.N. agency working to advance family planning and reproductive health around the world—including in places enduring humanitarian crises. Read more of this articleSource: News Now | Center for American Progress(Visited 23 times, 23 visits today)Commentscomments

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