It has, to be honest, been rather hard to keep up with the flow of executive orders, policy pronouncements and big name appointments from the new US president: they’ve been coming thick and fast. So it’s been tricky drawing up any sort of running audit of debits v credits, though some changes, like the appointment of Jared Kushner to preside over the Israeli/Palestinian peace process, are sufficiently surreal to make you wonder why the Women Against Trump brigade didn’t put it on their placards.
But there are pluses, depending on your point of view. And from where I’m at, Trump’s executive order reintroducing the ‘global gag rule’ – which sounds unhelpfully like a perverted circus turn – is one of them. This is the provision – I’m pretty sure it’s not the official title – banning US non-government organisations from offering abortion services or information about abortion if they receive US funding.
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