The US pulled financing of family planning funding:
https://populationconnection.org/article/washington-view-june-2025/
Feds Freeze Family Planning Funding
Written by Brian Dixon, Senior Vice President for Governmental and Political Affairs | Published: June 16, 2025
Global health funding freeze cuts contraceptive access for millions
On Inauguration Day, Donald Trump and Elon Musk issued an executive action freezing all new foreign assistance grants for 90 days, while the administration assessed whether funded projects aligned with the administration’s values. Four days later, they also issued a “stop work” order for existing global health grants.
The impact was immediate and catastrophic. According to the Guttmacher Institute, during the 90-day freeze, since extended by at least 30 days, 11.7 million women and girls lost access to contraceptives and family planning services. This resulted in an estimated 4.2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 8,000 maternal deaths.
The United States has long been the leading donor to international family planning programs, providing close to 40% of overall donor funding. In 2024, US family planning assistance helped nearly 48 million women and couples get contraceptive supplies and reproductive health care services. It prevented over 17 million unintended pregnancies, more than 5 million unsafe abortions, and 34,000 maternal deaths.
In short, US family planning aid has been among the most successful investments in terms of improving health, expanding educational and economic opportunities for girls and women, protecting and conserving natural resources, and reducing poverty.
In addition to the freeze on bilateral aid, the administration also ended all grants to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). As the world’s largest multilateral provider of reproductive health care, UNFPA works in over 150 countries and is the lead agency when it comes to meeting these critical needs in the aftermath of disasters and in ongoing humanitarian settings.
This is odd behavior in a country that aims to reduce an influx of people desperate to leave overpopulated foreign countries.
One could even speculate that such rushes are sought with moves like these.
Financing family planning education and access to contraception would be the one thing the US could do sanely rather than build creepy mass deportation centres and jail 90,000 people.
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