Few Groups Reject Abortion-Restricted U.S. Global Health Funds

Few Groups Reject Abortion-Restricted U.S. Global Health Funds

February 7, 2018
Nurith Aizenman

The Trump administration has released its first assessment of the impact of the president's decision to reinstate the "Mexico City policy," which cuts off U.S. aid to international groups unless they promise not to provide or promote abortion, even with non-U.S. funding sources.

The review finds that so far practically all grantees have agreed to those conditions. But opponents of the policy caution that the administration's statistics offer too incomplete a picture to draw conclusions about the policy's impact.

Continued: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/07/584141588/few-groups-reject-abortion-restricted-u-s-global-health-funds