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Team,
Today, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing the
Global Gag Rule that had been re-issued and greatly expanded during
the Trump administration; beginning the repeal of the Title X rule;
withdrawing the U.S. co-sponsorship and signature from the Geneva
Consensus Declaration; and restoring funding to the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA). This follows President Biden's
announcement last week to rejoin the World Health Organization.
I wanted you to see my full statement on President Biden's
recent executive order on these critical policies.
- Nancy
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for
Reproductive Rights
Today the Biden administration took an important first step towards
righting the Trump administration's tremendous wrongs impacting access
to reproductive health, rights, and justice. In revoking the Global
Gag Rule and acting to rescind the Domestic Gag Rule, President Biden
is stopping policies that were intended to force reproductive health
centers, in the U.S. and around the world, to stop providing and
referring for abortion services.
The Biden administration also disavowed the disgraceful anti-abortion
and anti-LGBTQI+ "declaration" that the Trump administration
co-sponsored in October and ordered the State Department to take the
steps needed to restore funding to the UNFPA and to ensure that there
are adequate funds to support women's reproductive and sexual health
needs globally.
We applaud these actions and urge the Biden administration to act
swiftly to address all aspects of the harmful anti-reproductive rights
legacy of the Trump administration:
* Rescind other Trump-era regulations, including those that allow
health care workers to deny reproductive health services and
information, and regulations that allow employers and
universities to deny contraceptive coverage to their employees
and students.
* Restore reporting on sexual and reproductive health and rights
in the State Department's annual country reports on human
rights.
* Disavow the report by the Trump-era State Department's
Commission on Unalienable Rights.
But it is not enough for the Biden administration to return to the
pre-Trump status quo. There is urgent work still to be done to fulfill
the President's commitment to sexual and reproductive health and
rights, including:
* Stop over-broad implementation of the Helms Amendment and push
for its Congressional repeal.
* Promote reproductive health policies guided by science, not
ideology: The FDA should take the same approach to allowing
access to medication abortion by telemedicine, in line with its
approach to other drugs.
* Address racial disparities in maternal health care by launching
an interagency task force co-led by the White House and the
Department of Health and Human Services, specifically dedicated
to advancing respectful maternal health care and promoting
expansion of Medicaid coverage to at least one year postpartum.
* Champion reproductive rights legislation, including the Women's
Health Protection Act, the EACH Woman Act, the Global HER Act,
and the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act.
* Support the inclusion and recognition of sexual and reproductive
rights as fundamental human rights in UN processes and accept
and implement the recommendations made to the US on reproductive
rights during the Universal Periodic Review.
With these steps the United States can respect and support each
person's ability to make decisions about their reproductive health and
life, and have access to the full range of reproductive health care
services and information.
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