President Joe Biden signed executive orders Thursday that will have major ramifications for women and LGBTQ+ people’s access to health care and reproductive health services.
@MikhailAlexa with the details:https://bit.ly/3r20O8E
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To address reproductive rights abroad, Biden also repealed the Mexico City policy, also known as the “global gag rule,” which prohibits foreign aid groups that get certain kinds of U.S. funding from “perform[ing] or actively promot[ing] abortion as a method of family planning.”
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Trump further expanded this policy to include all public health aid abroad, about $12 billion dollars, per
@Guttmacher, including money that addressed HIV treatment, pregnancy-related health, malaria, tuberculosis, water and sanitation, and child nutrition.https://bit.ly/3r20O8EShow this thread -
Studies show that the implementation of the Mexico City policy was associated with a 13.5 percent reduction in the use of contraception and a 40 percent increase in the rate of abortion.https://bit.ly/3r20O8E
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In Mozambique, a country suffering from high levels of AIDS-related mortality, at least 90 family planning clinics have closed since 2017 as a result of this rule, according to The Lancet, a medical journal.https://bit.ly/3r20O8E
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Health-care advocates have called on Biden to take immediate action to erase all of the reproductive policies the Trump administration put in place to limit global funding.https://bit.ly/3r20O8E
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“We are calling on the Biden administration to take bold action to stop this deadly cycle of granting or rescinding human rights when the political tides shift. The U.S. has an obligation to safeguard human rights for all.” More from
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Biden also signed an executive order that could start the process for rescinding Trump-era restrictions to Title X, the program that provides federal grants for family planning clinics.