Sentences with phrase «administration gag rule»
By attempting to deny all federal Title X funds to agencies that perform any abortions with their own funds, the Vitter amendment defies more than 20 years of state and federal policy - making jurisprudence, both before and after the Reagan administration gag rule.
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The U.S. administration imposed a global gag rule in 2001 (officially known as the Mexico City Policy) that restricts funds for family planning groups.
In 1987, the Reagan administration issued what came to be known as the «gag rule,» which barred recipients of federal family planning funds from counseling or referring patients for abortion, and which required physical and financial separation between contraceptive and abortion services.
The reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule, voting away essential protections for the Title X family planning program, gutting international family planning funds — the all - out war on women and families in this new administration has been unprecedented.
The Trump administration just released devastating anti-woman guidelines expanding the global gag rule.
«Even though it doesn't offer specifics on every program, we are concerned given this administration's actions on global women's health, including signing into law an expanded global gag rule and most recently defunding UNFPA, that funding for international family planning may be a particular target for cuts.
The George W. Bush administration reinstated the global gag rule, galvanized opponents of safe and legal abortion by passing a ban on a rarely used later - stage abortion procedure, and worked to establish a new legal status for frozen embryos.
The global gag rule was first instituted by President Ronald Regan in 1984 and has since been repealed and instituted by several subsequent administrations.
5/15/17: During Women's Health Week, Trump Administration Releases Devastating Anti-Woman Guidelines on Expanded Global Gag Rule
The administration's actions — including cutting funding for international family planning, taking action to «defund» the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and expanding the harmful global gag rule — will have a devastating impact and put women's lives at risk.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) today commended Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D - NY) for introducing the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2010 to bar future administrations from reinstituting the so - called Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which blocked access to basic health care for women worldwide.
In 2009, The Obama administration overturned the global gag rule and reaffirmed America's commitment to sexual and reproductive health at home and abroad.
In 1993, the Clinton administration reversed these rules — but it was not the last time the world would suffer from the global gag rule.
Until 1987, when the Reagan administration issued the so - called gag rule, that provision consistently had been interpreted as a ban on the use of Title X funds to pay for abortions, and the federal regulations governing Title X did not otherwise reflect an antiabortion animus toward providers.