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By Ellen Wulfhorst
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday reinstated a global gag rule that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, a move that was widely expected but nonetheless dismayed women's rights advocates.

The rule, which affects American non-governmental organizations working abroad, is one that incoming presidents have used to signal their positions on abortion rights. It was created under U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Trump, an abortion opponent, signed the reinstatement directive at a ceremony in the White House on his fourth day in office. Former President Barack Obama had lifted the gag rule in 2009 when he took office.

"Women's health and rights are now one of the first casualties of the Trump administration," said Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity in Washington.

"The global gag rule has been associated with an increase in unsafe abortions and we expect that Trump's global gag rule will cost women their lives," she said.

Reinstatement of the gag rule, formally the Mexico City policy, comes just two days after crowds of people marched in cities around the world in a show of unity for women's rights, among them abortion access.

While no official estimates were available, organizers said nearly five million people participated.

The far-reaching gag rule affects groups getting funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, even if they use separate money for abortion services, counseling or referrals, advocates note.

"It is appalling to dictate to civil society groups and health care providers how they can spend their own money and force them to withhold from women critical information about and access to the full range of reproductive health care," said Nancy Northup, president of the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights.

The policy puts groups that provide women's health care in an "untenable position," said Brian Dixon of Population Connection Action Fund.

Good job by Trump!

Actually this abortion rights gag is a very complex issue that if you look at it from both sides you will be able to see reasonable reasons for either supporting or opposing the right to abortion movement.

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This is a very complex issue. It goes beyond just saving a child:s life. It also exposes unprepared mothers to health risks even death if not properly done.and

Everyone knows abortion is bad just like every other vice. But we do not live in a perfect world. I don't believe any mother with the wherewithal to raise her unborn would abort it.

We know he's just attempting to save money by withdrawing America's financial support across the world. I just think there are more important issues Trumps administration should concern itself with.

Let God be the judge of Abortion.

let's see how it pans out

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This is a very complex issue. It goes beyond just saving a child:s life. It also exposes unprepared mothers to health risks even death if not properly done.and

Everyone knows abortion is bad just like every other vice. But we do not live in a perfect world. I don't believe any mother with the wherewithal to raise her unborn would abort it.

We know he's just attempting to save money by withdrawing America's financial support across the world. I just think there are more important issues Trumps administration should concern itself with.

Let God be the judge of Abortion.

Abortion should be abolished except where the mother's life is endangered

y would u say it should be abolished? this has gone a long way to save many children yet unborn n even d parent life