NPR: In Kenya, Reproductive Clinics Fear Trump Policy’s Detrimental Effects “President Trump’s Mexico City policy will harm nonprofits providing health care for women. A USAID-funded clinic in Nairobi is afraid it will prevent it from helping Kenyan women in need of abortions…” (Peralta, 1/31).

Huffington Post: Get ready for more unsafe abortions around the world Christopher Purdy, president of DKT International “Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you should be very concerned by Mr. Trump’s re-instituting the ‘global gag rule,’ also known as the Mexico City policy. In doing so, the president has ironically…

Overseas Development Institute: Trump’s global gag rule means more women and girls will die Lisa Denney, research associate in the Politics and Governance Program at ODI, discusses the potential consequences of U.S. President Trump’s reinstatement and expansion of the Mexico City policy, writing, “The return and expansion of the global…

New York Times: Duterte’s Free Birth Control Order Is Latest Skirmish With Catholic Church “…The Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, signed an executive order this month calling for the full and immediate enforcement of a 2012 law that would give six million women … free government-distributed contraception and reproductive health services.…

BMJ Blogs: Scott Greer and Sarah Rominski: The global gag rule and what to do about it Scott L. Greer, associate professor of global health in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Sarah D. Rominski, research assistant professor in…

Associated Press: ‘She Decides’: Dutch put millions into birth control fund “The Dutch government announced Saturday it’s putting 10 million euros ($10.7 million) into an international fund it has launched to finance access to birth control, abortion, and sex education for women in developing nations after President Donald Trump [reinstated…

The Hill: Sheryl Sandberg blasts Trump’s revival of ban on abortion funding “Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is blasting President Trump’s decision to revive a ban on foreign aid to overseas health providers who give abortion counseling or provide abortions. Sandberg took to Facebook Thursday evening to share an article from…

Boston Globe: Seeing hope in Trump, local anti-abortion advocates head to D.C. rally “…Just days into President Trump’s administration, the anti-abortion movement has logged progress on two of its four top agenda items, on expanding protections against government funding for abortions both in the United States and overseas. For the…

Devex: Why Trump’s draft executive order to slash U.N. funding should be treated seriously, though with caution “A U.S. presidential executive order targeting the United Nations and other international organizations could inflict a major blow to global development and humanitarian operations, slashing American funding by at least 40 percent. But…

Rewire: Pence Says Science Supports Anti-Choice Policies — It Doesn’t Ally Boguhn, political and campaigns editor at Rewire, discusses Vice President Mike Pence’s remarks at Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., on science and abortion, writing, “Vice President Mike Pence claimed that the ‘steady advance of science’ was aiding…