- Title
- South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance
- Creator
- Ndabula, Yanela, Macleod, Catriona I, du Plessis, Ulandi, Moore, Sarah-Ann
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/441299
- Identifier
- vital:73875
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241229046"
- Description
- In 2017, Donald Trump signed the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), thereby reinstating the Global Gag Rule. The policy restricted all United States foreign funding from abortion-related activities. Little research reports the responses of recipients of this bilateral assistance. The study documents the South African government's responses to the PLGHA. We accessed Hansard parliamentary debates, interviewed four parliamentarians alongside one government official, and reviewed a USAID-funded initiative developed while the policy was in effect. We analysed the data using interpretive content analysis through a global social policy and gendered coloniality lens. Our research documents silence, ignorance, avoidance, and possible over-interpretation of the PLGHA within the South African government. The colonialist politics of global redistribution created the grounds for gendered regulation, resulting in a fundamental undermining of reproductive rights. Ironically, the solution – advocacy and parliamentarian briefing regarding sexual and reproductive issues – is generally led by civil society, the bodies weakened by the PLGHA.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (22 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Critical Social Policy, Ndabula, Y., Macleod, C.I., du Plessis, U. and Moore, S., 2024. South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance. Critical Social Policy, p.02610183241229046, Critical Social Policy p. 02610183241229046 2024 1461-703X
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Sage Journals Terms and Conditions Statement (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-use)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Collections
Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
du Plessis, Ulandi
Macleod, Catriona Ida (Distinguished Professor)
SDG 05. Gender Equality
RU Department of Psychology
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Critical Studies in Sexualities and Reproductions Research (CSSR) Programme
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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