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Trump Slams the Door on UN Family-Planning Funding

The State Department confirmed the administration would stop funding the U.N. Population Fund, a move justified with abortion-policy rhetoric and condemned by women’s-health advocates as a damaging ideological strike. It was a clean example of Trump-world turning a policy lever into a culture-war weapon.

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Trump Slams the Door on UN Family-Planning Funding

The State Department confirmed the administration would stop funding the U.N. Population Fund, a move justified with abortion-policy rhetoric and condemned by women’s-health advocates as a damaging ideological strike. It was a clean example of Trump-world turning a policy lever into a culture-war weapon.

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Trump Slams the Door on UN Family-Planning Funding

The State Department confirmed the administration would stop funding the U.N. Population Fund, a move justified with abortion-policy rhetoric and condemned by women’s-health advocates as a damaging ideological strike. It was a clean example of Trump-world turning a policy lever into a culture-war weapon.

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