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US makes fresh restriction on abortion
The U.S. will further clamp down on the use of foreign aid for non-governmental organisations that support abortions or work with groups that help women access the medical service, an official said.
The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on Tuesday, said this as he announced new limitations on the use of federal government funds in Washington.
āWe can continue to meet our critical global health goalsā¦ while refusing to subsidize the killing of unborn babies,ā Pompeo said.
He said the new measures would include āstrict prohibition on back door schemesā meant to help funnel money to organisations working on womenās health and that support abortions.
Pompeo is a Christian conservative and has been facing lobbying by right-wing groups on the abortion issue in Latin America.
U.S. President Donald Trump, upon taking office, reversed regulations that were in place during the Obama administration to reimpose the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prohibits organisations receiving U.S. money from even using non-U.S. funding for abortions.
Critics call the policy the āglobal gag ruleāā as it not only limits what organisations can do with their own money, but also places restrictions on the types of conversations health care providers can have with patients.
Human Rights Watch, a lobby group, warned already in 2018 that Trump was applying the rule not only to the tens of millions of dollars the U.S. gives to family planning programmes but to the more than 8 billion dollars the U.S. donates to global health issues.
Trump has further been criticised at the UN for supporting conservative, non-democratic states, who oppose using the international organisation for gay rights and key womenās health issues.
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