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His picks could restrict our rights for generations to come.
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Donald Trump
President of the United States
Mike Pence
Vice President of the United States
Alex Azar
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Diane Foley
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs
Steven Valentine
Chief of Staff, HHS Assistant Secretary of Health
Bethany Kozma
Senior Advisor of the Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Margaret "Maggie" Wynne
Counselor for Human Services Policy
Betsy Devos
Secretary of Education
Valerie Huber
Senior Policy Advisor at the HHS Office of Global Affairs; Former Senior Policy Advisor for the Assistant Secretary for Health
Sam Brownback
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom
Trump Could Drop His Dangerous "Gag Rule" Any Day Now
The proposed rule "gags" doctors by prohibiting them from telling women about how and where to access abortion — even if the patient asks. It’s both dangerous and unethical.
The rule makes it crystal clear that the administration is more interested in restricting access to abortion and pushing its ideology on women than it is in protecting their health, livelihood, and freedoms.
How Harmful is a Gag Rule? The Global Gag Rule Shows Us
On January 23, 2017, in one of his first acts as president, Trump reinstated and expanded the global gag rule to restrict abortion access.
Evidence shows the global gag rule leads to increases in unsafe abortion, unintended pregnancies, women dying from pregnancy-related complications, and infant and child deaths.
We should be ending the global gag rule — not importing a version of it to the U.S.
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