Summary

Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the “Mexico City policy,” halting U.S. aid to groups providing abortion services, counseling, or advocacy overseas.

First introduced in 1984, the policy is traditionally tied to Republican administrations but now impacts billions in global health aid due to Trump’s expanded scope.

Critics warn it limits access to contraception, forces unsafe abortions, and destabilizes global health programs.

Trump also signed a second order banning federal abortion funding and rolled back Biden-era protections.

  • @LaunchesKayaks
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    So glad I was approved for a hysterectomy. July can’t come soon enough

  • Verdant Banana
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    The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in Federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service, its officers, or a common carrier in conveying obscene matter,[1] crime-inciting matter, or certain abortion-related matter.[2] The Comstock Act is largely codified across title 18 of the United States Code and was enacted beginning in 1872 with the attachment of a rider to the Post Office Consolidation Act of 1872.[3] Amended multiple times since initial enactment, most recently in 1996,[4] the Act is nonetheless often associated with U.S. Postal Inspector and anti-vice activist Anthony Comstock.[5]

    The law was applied broadly for much of its history, before the scope of enforcement narrowed after various court rulings, and modern enforcement is primarily focused on prosecuting child pornography (with the most recent conviction under the Act being made in 2021).[6][7] In spite of its contentious nature, something that has throughout the years spawned a variety of legal challenges on enumerated powers doctrine, vagueness doctrine, First Amendment grounds, etc., the Comstock Act has thus far been widely upheld as constitutional.[note 1]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Act_of_1873

    goes beyond health to include everyone in the United States to be suspect of something and subject to correcting by the jackboots

    Democrats and Republicans both have supported such laws and policies to bring us into the United States of today