Emboldened anti-abortion advocates, stalled policies on safe abortions, and resistance against reproductive health efforts. That has been the “chilling” impact worldwide, from India to Nigeria, from last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively revoked the constitutional right to abortion.
The decision last June to overturn the longstanding Roe v. Wade directive, which gave women a constitutional right to an abortion, put the U.S. alongside Poland, El Salvador, and Nicaragua as the only nations in decades to restrict abortion access.
Its impacts “reverberate on a global scale,” said Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins, chief executive of PAI, which works to increase access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Adva Saldinger@AdvaSal
Adva Saldinger is a Senior Reporter at Devex where she covers development finance, as well as U.S. foreign aid policy. Adva explores the role the private sector and private capital play in development and authors the weekly Devex Invested newsletter bringing the latest news on the role of business and finance in addressing global challenges. A journalist with more than 10 years of experience, she has worked at several newspapers in the U.S. and lived in both Ghana and South Africa.
