Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Transition 2017: A more sweeping global gag rule returns, as cabinet head hearings continue
Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses the reinstatement and expansion of the Mexico City Policy, writing, “[W]hile the previous version of the policy applied to U.S. funding for international and local family planning services, the additional language in the order signed by [President] Trump on Monday directs the Secretary of State, with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and USAID Administrator ‘to implement a plan to extend the requirements of the reinstated Memorandum to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies’ … an extension that global health advocates note will impact a greatly increased range of organizations, care, and services…” Barton also notes that confirmation hearings for Secretary of State and HHS Secretary will continue this week (1/24).