‘Stunning Abdication of Basic Human Decency’: Trump Ripped for Expanding Global Gag Rule

As US Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed anti-abortion activists at the March for Life, public health and reproductive rights advocates decried the Trump administration’s expansion of the Mexico City Policy, which critics call the global gag rule.

Since the Reagan administration, Democrats have repealed and Republicans have reimposed the policy, which bans nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortion from receiving federal funding. While President Donald Trump...