Protect X: Why the Title X Gag Rule Is Our Next Big Fight
The Trump-Pence administration just issued a "gag rule" — one of the most dangerous and unconscionable attacks on our health and rights we’ve seen yet.
It dismantles the Title X program — founded nearly 50 years ago to provide affordable birth control and reproductive health care for millions of Americans.
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Trump Just Dropped His Dangerous "Gag Rule"
Trump Just Dropped His Dangerous "Gag Rule"
The rule would "gag" 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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