• Assistant Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University
A coalition of physicians, AIDS activists and medical students protest Trump’s global gag rule, which expands the policy restriction to all US health funding. Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

US anti‑abortion “gag rule” hits women hard: what we found in Kenya and Madagascar

Trump’s expanded global gag rule weakened national health systems and created barriers to women’s sexual and reproductive healthcare access.
US President Donald Trump speaks at the 47th March For Life rally on the National Mall, January 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Insights into how the US abortion gag rule affects health services in Kenya

The Global Gag Rule transcends abortion and exacerbates weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the Kenyan health system.

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