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The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad
- The Trump administration has reduced funding and curtailed international family planning programs abroad, despite congressional appropriations.
- Community health workers like Prossy Muyingo in Uganda lost their paid roles as a result of the aid cuts, affecting local contraceptive access.
- Experts warn that cuts could lead to shortages of contraceptives and disrupt health services across multiple high-need countries.
- U.S. officials defend the policy shift, arguing it aligns with a broader stance against funding abortion-related activities abroad.
- The reporting highlights a real-world impact, with a Ugandan client who became pregnant after losing access to their previous services.
- Funding has historically supported more than 40 percent of global donor funding for family planning.
- There is bipartisan acknowledgment that access to contraception reduces abortions and maternal deaths.
- The administration’s FY27 budget justification flagged reproductive health funding as non-essential for national safety.
- Some experts argue that continued contraception access remains important for global stability and humanitarian outcomes.
- Despite cuts, the U.S. still has a large, unspent appropriated sum for family planning programs.
- Officials say the policy shift aims to focus aid on broader humanitarian goals, not on abortion services.
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