The move — believed to be ordered by a top aide to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — reflects the Trump administration’s rightward turn from the Obama administration on family planning issues.
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State Department officials have been ordered to pare back passages in a soon-to-be-released annual report on global human rights that traditionally discuss women’s reproductive rights and discrimination, according to five former and current department officials.
The directive calls for stripping passages that describe societal views on family planning, including how much access women have to contraceptives and abortion.
A broader section that chronicles racial, ethnic and sexual discrimination has also been ordered pared down, the current and former officials said.
The move, believed to have been ordered by a top aide to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, reflects the Trump administration’s rightward turn from the Obama administration on family planning issues. It also appears to highlight the stated desire of Tillerson and President Donald Trump to make human rights a lower priority in U.S. foreign policy.
Some career State Department officials — particularly […]
With less availability to any forms of birth control and abortions the birth rate will be accelerated. With less health care there is the possibility of balance.
What worries me is the fact that educationin the USA not being a priority the new ones born will not have the tools to exercise choices of any kind.
I see total manipulation of the people. Also I see the fast decline in all aspects of growth and wellness. The word zombie comes to mind.