Ms. Magazine: Trump’s Gag Rules Hurt the Most Vulnerable Women Elena Sarver, legal adviser at the Global Justice Center “The Global and Domestic Gag Rules [– otherwise known as the Mexico City policy and new regulations for the federal Title X family planning program, respectively –] are just two of…

VOA News: Pregnant Women Overseas Lose Access to Prenatal Care Due to Trump’s ‘Global Gag Rule’ “Medical providers say some pregnant women in developing countries have lost access to prenatal health care because of the Trump administration’s expanded ‘global gag rule’ [– also known as the Mexico City policy –]…

The Hill: Democrats demand information from White House about fetal tissue research ban “A pair of House and Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the Trump administration about its decision to ban the use of federal funds for research involving fetal tissue. In a Wednesday letter to Health and Human…

Open Canada: How Trump’s latest efforts to stop abortion increasingly undermine global health Freelance journalist Urooba Jamal discusses the potential global health impacts of the Trump administration’s expanded Mexico City policy and highlights the limitations of international efforts to respond to the policy (7/16). Open Global Rights: American policy is…

Inter Press Service: U.S. Defunds UNFPA for Third Consecutive Year — on Misconceived Assumptions “The Trump administration … has withheld its annual contributions to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) — for the third consecutive year. … ‘This unfortunate (U.S.) decision will impede UNFPA’s crucial work to protect the health and…

Pacific Standard: An Update on Abortion Pills From the World Health Organization Undermines How the U.S. Regulates Them “Abortion pills should be widely available and affordable, and don’t need to be dispensed by highly trained specialists or in specialty facilities, according to a World Health Organization update published last week.…

CNN: U.S. aid cuts to U.N. agency will hurt vulnerable women and children, critics say “The Trump administration will withhold funds from the United Nations agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year, though critics and lawmakers say the decision will hurt vulnerable women and…

Council on Foreign Relations: Abortion Law: Global Comparisons Rachel B. Vogelstein, Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at CFR, and Rebecca Turkington, assistant director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at CFR, discuss abortion laws around the world, including in the U.S.…

Al Jazeera: The informal networks resisting Honduras’s abortion ban (Brigida, 7/12). Associated Press: Spike in femicides raises alert in Bolivia (Flores, 7/12). CNN: DOH raises alert with rapid spike of dengue cases in PH regions (7/15). Devex: African activists seek universal access to sanitary products (Adepoju, 7/15). Global Press Journal:…

Bloomberg: Biden Outlines Plans to Reset U.S. Foreign Policy After Trump “Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden said Thursday that he would lead a sweeping overhaul of U.S. foreign policy to reverse many of Donald Trump’s actions. … Biden pledged to end a range of Trump policies, including the travel ban…