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Policy Priorities

Population Connection works with our sister organization, Population Connection Action Fund, to expand access to safe, affordable, and comprehensive reproductive health care worldwide by:

The Global Gag Rule penalizes foreign health care providers that provide a full range of information and services that are legal within their own countries. It stifles democratic participation by prohibiting assistance to organizations that speak out about the impact of unsafe abortion in their own countries. The Helms Amendment has been used to ban foreign assistance from funding abortion services under any circumstances, even in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the pregnant person. It is simply impossible to have a serious discussion about reproductive health and maternal mortality in the developing world without discussing the importance of safe abortion access. The Global Gag Rule and the Helms Amendment are two of the most odious policies ever enacted on foreign assistance funding—they erode access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion—and it is time for both policies to end, permanently.

And here in the United States, abortion is no longer protected by the Constitution, since the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022.

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Sign our petitions to pass the Global HER Act, the Abortion Is Health Care Act, and the Support UNFPA Act!

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