A Look At The Global Gag Rule --- What Is It

According to GenderHealth.org --- Trump's Global Gag Rule stipulates that non U.S. nongovernmental organizations receiving U.S. family planning funding cannot inform the public or educate their government on the need to make safe abortion available, provide legal abortion services, or provide advice on where to get an abortion. First introduced in 1984, by President Ronald Reagan, the policy allows for exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment. Documentation and analysis of the impact of the Global Gag Rule has shown that the policy restricts a basic right to speech and the right to make informed health decisions, as well as harms the health and lives of poor women by making it more difficult to access family planning services. It has also been found that the policy does not reduce abortion. President Donald Trump has reinstated the "global gag rule," which cuts off all U.S. funding to international NGOs whose work includes abortion services or advocacy. To learn more about the Global Gag Rule click on the pictures below to read the articles.