How can a foreign aid policy that primarily hurts women and children be branded “pro-life”?
March 5, 2026
by Terry McGovern, Sabrina Das and Katherine Hartley
Global maternal and child health is already in crisis. Hundreds of thousands of preventable pregnancy-related deaths occur annually, and progress to address maternal mortality has stalled globally.
Now, the Trump administration’s expanded global gag rule—which took effect last week—will accelerate this already dangerous backslide. They’ve framed the policy as a reaffirmation of “pro-life” values. It is not. It is an ideological intervention into global health that ignores decades of evidence.
Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2026/03/05/global-gag-rule-trump/