NEW: A decades-old U.S. government policy known as the 'gag rule' reinstated by Trump that restricts international aid to NGOs that support abortion is linked to a 40% rise in abortions in some parts of sub-Saharan African, a study showed on Thursday
LONDON - A decades-old U.S. government policy reinstated by President Donald Trump in 2017 that restricts international aid to NGOs that support abortion is linked to a 40% rise in abortions in some parts of sub-Saharan African, a study showed on Thursday.
The policy prevents U.S. federal funding from being used overseas to support any organisation that performs or provides counselling on abortion. Successive U.S. administrations have flip-flopped between rescinding and reinstating it along partisan lines since it was created by the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan in 1984.
The researchers urged the United States, as the world's biggest donor of development assistance, to recognise the health of mothers as"a global priority", and warned that the Mexico City Policy's knock-on effects could add to maternal death rates. The researchers used what they called a"difference-in-difference" method to identify any changes - in other words they analysed whether the difference between rates or abortion, pregnancy and contraceptive use in high-exposure countries versus low-exposure countries were significantly greater when the policy was in place than when it was not.
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