‘Gagging’ Abortion Access: The Global Threat of Trump’s Second Term to Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

Ahead of Trump’s second term, 100+ international civil society organizations have joined together to demand the permanent repeal of the global gag rule.

1/20/2025
by Shoshanna Ehrlich

On the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision, Trump proclaimed he was “proud to be the most pro-life president in U.S history.” As he boasted on social media, this self-conferred accolade undoubtedly reflected his greatest antiabortion ‘accomplishment’—namely, that “50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade … and for the first time put the Pro Life movement in a strong negotiating position over the Radicals that are willing to kill babies even into their 9th month, and beyond.”

As well documented by the media, Trump’s second term presents a grave domestic threat to essential sexual and reproductive healthcare, which has already been decimated across wide swaths of the country. Considerably less attention, however, has been paid to the devastation his presidency will unleash worldwide when he undoubtedly reinstates the global gag rule, as it is anticipated he will do as a “day one” priority.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2025/01/20/trump-mexico-city-policy-global-gag-rule-abortion-us-foreign-aid/