"Along with using his wife's pregnancy announcement as proof that he gets action (shudder), Vice President JD Vance used his speech at the March for Life rally on Friday to announce a devastating expansion of the Trump administration's global gag rule. The rule, which already blocked federal funding for global organizations that even dare utter the word "abortion," will now include any organization that the administration deems as promoting transgender rights or diversity inclusion initiatives."
""The impact is exponential and the dollar value hard to calculate," Jessica Stern, Co-President of Alliance for Diplomacy and Justice and a former U.S. Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI Persons, told Jezebel. "Despite already dismantling U.S. foreign aid by eliminating USAID, the Trump Administration is bulldozing even further to expand the Global Gag Rule, pushing his agenda of conditioning previously apolitical funding to control people's bodies and decimate human rights internationally.""
Vice President JD Vance announced an expansion of the global gag rule at the March for Life rally. The policy previously blocked federal funding for global organizations that mentioned "abortion" and now extends to organizations deemed to promote transgender rights or diversity inclusion initiatives. Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy about a week into his second term, following a pattern of Republican presidents. The State Department outlined the expansion in three rules that will affect nearly all aspects of foreign aid. An administration official indicated the rule now extends beyond $8 billion in global health to cover over $30 billion in foreign assistance. Critics warn the expansion conditions aid and will decimate human rights internationally.
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