Trump’s Plan to Punish Abortion Providers Is Deadly, Horrific, and Totally Predictable
We already know that a domestic gag rule will be catastrophic for women
When President Trump revived the so-called global gag rule — a plan to strip U.S. funding from any clinics abroad that provided or even mentioned abortions; it has been enacted by every Republican president since Reagan in 1984 and overturned by every Democrat — health providers called it a “death sentence.”
Melvine Ouyo, a clinic director in Kenya, said the abortions she has provided to young women have saved them from ruin or worse. Of one such patient, Ouyo said, “[When] she came, she was so suicidal, and she is 20 years old, lives with a family of three [where] living standards are very poor — an open sewer and no access to safe water. She cannot afford to carry a pregnancy to term. And she says, ‘I will die if I cannot [get] assistance or services to terminate the pregnancy.’”
Under the gag rule, Ouyo would be required to send the girl home or risk losing her own funding.
Feminists and health care organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, warned the policy would kill pregnant people without preventing abortions — ironically, since the gag rule…
