Trump administration officials are attempting to build a global coalition to oppose abortion rights and promote traditional family values. By Ariana Eunjung Cha and Ariana Eunjung Cha National reporter Email Bio Follow Lena H. Sun Lena H.
The first test of the coalition comes this week as U.S. negotiators seek to excise references to “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights” — which they argue promotes abortion and normalizes sexual activity among youth — in an annual document about empowering women by the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women. They also want to replace “gender-responsive” with “family-centered” in calls for more-inclusive public services.
In the first year of the Trump administration, Christian social conservatives placed in high-level jobs — Huber among them — focused mostly on U.S. policy. They were highly successful, pushing through a religious exemption to the Affordable Care Act’s birth-control mandate, prioritizing abstinence-only sex education and imposing what critics call “gag rules” on family planning groups receiving $286 million in the United States and up to $7.
Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a Washington-based advocacy group, said the U.S. plan amounts to “bullying.” Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, vice president of programs for PAI, which works on universal access to reproductive health care globally, said such a coalition would allow countries “with more draconian laws about women’s rights or sexual minorities to skirt their obligations under international mechanisms.
In the November trade agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada, for example, U.S. representatives changed an initial draft that prohibited the signatories from engaging in LGBT employment discrimination to say that every country should proceed as it “considers appropriate.” Late last year, according to a State Department memo obtained by Foreign Policy, the United States urged diplomats to avoid phrases such as “sexual and reproductive health” or “comprehensive sexuality education.
LauraJa04236997 You meant it to read... a ‘global coalition’ against killing babies, right?
Stop killing baby's 🇺🇸
Smacks of fundamentalist Christian religious nonsense.
WTF keep this crap in the US. Canada doesn't want to go back to 1950
How much longer will we Americans put up with this kind of crap? (Until it's too late)
How many women would want a child with Trump, Putin, or Kim Jung Un or Saudi Prince? Not me so no we will never return to the days of forced pregnancy. We don't need more of y'all on earth. We need less psychopaths
Lololol shut up Trump you will never send women back to coathanger days. You are sexual predator who impregnated a woman who had to have an abortion. Who needs kids by the likes of a an with your demeanor and traits. All the more reason not to side with you on abortion
Has 'abortion' become agenda of realDonaldTrump govt ?
😡
The US government is NOT a church
rhonda_harbison If the US is going to be a forced-birth country then the government needs to pay the full support for each and every baby.
To which the people of the world say GFY tRump.
Listen everybody: Leave my uterus alone and nobody gets hurt.
If men got pregnant, this would not be discussed in 2019 ... sigh
Gross
7 continent,5 countries?
Against murdering children. FIFY
Instead of hate and division being this adminstrations mantra maybe a new mission statement is in order.
I'm sorry that I cannot support abortion as well as other forms of killing.
MikeOkuda These very same Christian conservatives are absolutely terrified of Sharia law being introduced, but they're doing the exact same thing - imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else through law. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
holybullies Anti abortion. Christ. You people are hopeless
Ain’t gonna happen. Europeans tend to honor a woman’s right to sovereignty over their own bodies.
peterdaou
foh
👏👏 Good luck, POTUS. Hopefully the world hasn't lost all of its morality.
IN OTHER NEWS: Trump administration cancels science, reason, truth, law, human rights and the last 500 years - anyone who opposes it will be burned at the stake for witchcraft and heresy.
Let’s force women to have babies in a country with the most expensive, least effective healthcare. Sounds like a Republican cash grab
Countries remain poor as long as women are forced to give birth against their will
Cuz he needs to do more than just grabbing them by the puzzies...
Not 'just' SteveBannon's, eww, but Incels & machismo MaleGuardianship type & hypocritical Evangelicals & of course Rapists can be collectively visualized as cartoon villains rubbing hands & twisting mustaches.
Forced vasectomies until marriage and signed agreement from their partner. This would do the trick. Vasectomies are easily reversible. Think about it. No more abortions overnight.
would anyone be surprised to find out that trump has paid for an abortion in his lifetime?
Mullahs will be happy to join in this 🤣🤣🤣 Not kidding.
The rise of Christian theocrats. Just like their Muslim theocratic brothers and sisters.
Whaat Surely this is some kind of sick joke!