June 27, 2025 | Press Releases
Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic to eliminate Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood in South Carolina is a blatant attack on the health care provider and on reproductive freedom. This decision (the justices ruled 6-3, with Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting) will result in…...
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May 2, 2025 | Press Releases
For immediate release The budget released by the White House today is an embarrassment. It’s little more than a repetition of all of Trump’s many grievances. It’s like he thinks budget day is Festivus. But his list of grievances comes with funding cuts that will cause grievous harm to vulnerable…...
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April 28, 2025 | Press Releases
For immediate release: As Trump marks the first 100 days of his second White House term, a Population Connection Action Fund survey reveals that US voters overwhelmingly oppose the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to international family planning funding. By a margin of 58-33, voters support restoring the global family planning…...
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January 29, 2025 | Press Releases
For immediate release: Donald Trump reimposed the devastating Global Gag Rule last Friday, following a televised address to anti-choice campaigners at a march in Washington, DC. The Global Gag Rule prevents foreign organizations from receiving US aid if they provide abortion services, referrals, or counseling, or if they advocate for…...
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January 27, 2025 | Press Releases
We are disgusted by the decision by the Trump administration to commit the United States to a global agreement to undercut global reproductive freedom and autonomy. The so-called “Geneva Consensus Declaration” is an agreement among some of the most oppressive governments in the world with disgraceful human rights records. It’s…...
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January 17, 2025 | Press Releases
For immediate release: Population Connection Action Fund is one of more than 100 organizations around the world that have added their name to a statement1 opposing the expected reinstatement of the devastating Mexico City Policy, aka Global Gag Rule, within days of the new administration taking office. The Global Gag Rule…...
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November 6, 2024 | Press Releases
Make no mistake, the election results are a huge setback for women’s reproductive health and for efforts to address overpopulation. In the immediate aftermath of any victory or defeat, it’s all too easy to fall prey to exuberance or despair. Elections are snapshots. In this instance, they reflect the dismaying…...
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July 22, 2024 | Press Releases
For immediate release: Vice President Harris has a long record of defending and expanding reproductive health and rights for everyone. She’s been the voice and face of the Biden-Harris administration on these issues since the Dobbs decision. In the Senate, she supported efforts to end the Global Gag Rule and…...
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June 26, 2024 | Press Releases
The decision leaked today, if accurate, is a cynical delay designed more to protect the political prospects of MAGA Republicans than the health of pregnant people needing emergency care. The Supreme Court had the chance — indeed the duty — to make clear that EMTALA (the Emergency Medical Treatment and…...
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April 9, 2024 | Press Releases
The decision by Arizona’s Supreme Court to uphold a 19th century abortion ban in the state is horrifying and infuriating. There’s one person to whom most of the blame belongs: disgraced former president Donald Trump. We are hopeful that the people of Arizona will enshrine reproductive freedom in the state…...
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