“When you cut foreign aid to a country, one of the first things that goes is women’s ability to access care when they’re going into labor and the care that they receive after giving birth,” said Ruth Gibson, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford’s department of health policy. The program procured a full one-third of the world’s contraceptives, which are key to making sure people can choose when and how often they give birth, and make a massive difference in lowering the likelihood that a woman will one day die from maternal complications in resource-starved countries. Since 1977 the Hyde Amendment has banned the use of federal funds for abortions in the United States, and the Trump administration has since reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which bans foreign aid for any organization that promotes or advocates for abortion at all, even if US aid isn’t used for that purpose.
Author: Sara Herschander
Published at: 2025-11-18 22:18:48
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