Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.
by Anna Diamond
Jan 23, 2017
3 minutes
On Monday, just days after hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington, as well as in hundreds of cities around the nation and the world, to call for, among other issues, the protection of women’s reproductive rights, President Donald Trump signed off on the first anti-abortion policy of his term.
It was expected: Almost immediately upon entering office, every new administration since 1984 has repealed or reinstated, according to its party’s position on abortion rights, a rule that foreign organizations that receive
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