8,000 pregnant women may die in just 90 days because of US aid cuts
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Summary
Since President Trump’s inauguration, federal funding for global health programmes that provide reproductive health services, clinical trials, and maternal health and contraceptive resources for millions around the world has been halted for 90 days.
The “global gag rule”, which was instated by President Trump, has stripped non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of funding for abortion services, leaving organisations such as MSI Reproductive Choices without $14m in funding that previously allowed it to offer contraceptive services to over two million women and girls.
Without access to contraception, women’s freedoms and economic prospects, as well as their general health and well-being, are put at risk.
Trump’s 90-day pause on funding has already caused losses of jobs and the discontinuation of health programmes, and the longer the freeze continues, the more devastating the impact on global healthcare infrastructure will be, according to experts.