Global health charities warn of ‘huge and terrible’ threat to abortion rights if Trump returns

Global gag rule' and funding cuts will be on different scale' if Republicans win again, family-planning providers say

Providers of women's healthcare around the world are preparing for potentially disastrous consequences should Donald Trump win the US presidential election in November.

Policies pursued during Trump's last presidency caused devastating" harm in a number of countries, said Beth Schlachter, a senior director at MSI Reproductive Choices in the US. It meant clinics shuttered, health teams closed, women dying ... but a second Trump term will be on a different scale".