New evidence shows far-reaching impact of expanded US “global gag rule”
AIDS2018, Official Press release - 27 July 2018 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) – "Researchers shared alarming evidence at the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) today of negative impacts of the US Government’s “Mexico City Policy”, also known as the “global gag rule”.
US Representative Barbara Lee of California’s 13th Congressional District also spoke: “The Trump-Pence Global Gag Rule is an ideological crusade that denies lifesaving care to women around the world and threatens decades of progress in the global HIV response,” she said. “The health care of women and children shouldn’t be used as a pawn to placate right-wing extremists.” (Photo: AIDS2018/MMS)