Feminists and health care organizations, such as Doctors Without Borders and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, warned the policy would kill pregnant people without preventing abortions — ironically, since the gag rule works to shut down clinics that provide birth control, abortion rates spike in the affected countries, even as more people die in back-alley procedures. Family planning organization Marie Stopes International predicted that, in Nigeria alone, “there will be an additional 660,000 abortions…with 10,000 women dying as a result.”
via Trump’s Plan to Punish Abortion Providers Is Deadly, Horrific, and Totally Predictable
