A life for a lifePresident Donald Trump has signed an executive order that may limit women across theworld the ability to safe abortion. He has reinstated the global gag rule also known as TheMexico City Policy which prohibits giving U.S. funding to non-governmental organizations thatoffer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive options if they includeabortion. Every women has the right to essential and accurate information about her body,whether it involves abortion or not. The decision and information to women for abortions shouldbe pro-choice. This is not only about abortion, it will mean cuts to family planning programs,harsh outcomes for women following the ban, and declining American healthcare.Cutting funding to
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Rapid population growth has begun to threaten human survival. The worldpopulation is projected to double in the next 40 years and in less than 20 years in disadvantagedcountries. The Mexico City Policy could be very dangerous for women and girls in countrieswith great poverty and conflict zones. Women in this situation tend to resort to unsafe and evenlife threatening methods of ending their pregnancies when they lack the option to safe abortion.The World Health Organization “estimated about 13 percent of all maternal deaths accountedoccur in developing countries” (Terkel and Bassett) because restrictive laws or preventing familyplanning do not eliminate women’s need for abortion.The U.S. ranks the lowest among 17 developed nations concerning health care, with ithaving the “highest rate of women dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth”(Rubenstein). So enforcing a ban that inhibits federal government assistance to those programs inother countries when the need for them still exists in the U.S. further supports why the banshouldn’t take place. .The American health care system is greatly diminished because the lackof attention to those who greatly need it. The U.S. spends the most money on healthcare than anyother developed country, with the most trained doctors but with performance and healthoutcomes it is dead last. No one should feel like they are being targeted because of the decisionthey choose to make with their body.These
Rapid population growth has begun to threaten human survival. The worldpopulation is projected to double in the next 40 years and in less than 20 years in disadvantagedcountries. The Mexico City Policy could be very dangerous for women and girls in countrieswith great poverty and conflict zones. Women in this situation tend to resort to unsafe and evenlife threatening methods of ending their pregnancies when they lack the option to safe abortion.The World Health Organization “estimated about 13 percent of all maternal deaths accountedoccur in developing countries” (Terkel and Bassett) because restrictive laws or preventing familyplanning do not eliminate women’s need for abortion.The U.S. ranks the lowest among 17 developed nations concerning health care, with ithaving the “highest rate of women dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth”(Rubenstein). So enforcing a ban that inhibits federal government assistance to those programs inother countries when the need for them still exists in the U.S. further supports why the banshouldn’t take place. .The American health care system is greatly diminished because the lackof attention to those who greatly need it. The U.S. spends the most money on healthcare than anyother developed country, with the most trained doctors but with performance and healthoutcomes it is dead last. No one should feel like they are being targeted because of the decisionthey choose to make with their body.These