Harry Potter novelist J.K. Rowling bashes Trump’s foreign aid plan

“Under the mistaken belief that this will stop abortion. It never has. It just makes it more unsafe,” the author of the Harry Potter series said, citing a 2015 Guttmacher Institute study as evidence.

The study by the pro-abortion rights group found that when the abortion policy has been in effect, health providers were forced to fire staff, reduce services or close their clinics. “Thousands of women lost access to family planning and reproductive health services from trusted local providers — sometimes the only provider of these services in their community — putting them at risk of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion,” the report said.

Addressing a critic’s response on Twitter, Rowling said, “[I]f you think the deaths of vulnerable African women are a suitable subject for a p—-y joke, you’d better hope there’s no hell.”

Trump on Monday reinstated the “Mexico City policy,” also known as the “global gag rule,” which blocks nongovernmental organizations from getting U.S. Agency for International Development funds if they provide abortions. The rule also prohibits groups from lobbying for abortion rights or providing patients with abortion referrals.

The rule was first put into place by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984 to impose an expansive set of anti-abortion rules on the overseas family planning program. Usually, it is repealed or put into place depending on the party controlling the White House. Former President Obama repealed the law in 2009. Trump reinstated the rule one day after the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s

Trump reinstated the rule one day after the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision to legalize abortion.