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Will Trump's global family planning cuts cause side effects?

US govt has identified 24 priority countries for family planning assistance

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Rachel Sullivan Robinson | The Conversation

President Donald Trump is leading an assault on family planning around the world.

Most recently, his administration cut off US contributions to the family planning, which provides and funds reproductive health services in poor countries. That follows his reinstatement of what’s known as the “global gag rule,” the executive order enacted by all Republican presidents since Ronald Reagan barring foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. funding from even mentioning abortion.

But Trump wants to go even further than his GOP predecessors by slashing spending on global health efforts funded