J.K. Rowling argued Monday night that President Trump’s executive order to reinstate a ban on foreign aid to international groups that provide abortions would put the “poorest women in the world” at risk.

“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.

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