US State Department Backtracks on Women’s Rights
This action unsurprisingly reflects the Trump administration's approach to women's rights - to health, bodily integrity, and to control when they have children - as being disposable. It already signed the expanded and harmful "global gag rule," which prohibits US funding of nongovernmental organizations providing access to family planning if they provide or refer people for abortions and has made it more difficult for women and girls to access contraception in the US.
But the Trump administration cannot rewrite international law. Women's reproductive rights are recognized human rights. The experiences of women and girls who have been denied these rights are egregious and often heartbreaking. The United Nations Committee Against Torture has found denial of a woman's reproductive rights as tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Access to contraception and safe abortion are critical to help prevent the estimated 800 maternal deaths that occur each day globally.
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It's depressing and inexcusable that in 2018, we need to demand that the US government recognize in word and deed that women's rights are human rights, that women have rights to fully participate in society, free from fear of violence and in control of their bodies and their lives.
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
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