People on top of hierarchies believe they have the right to control the lives of everyone below. When Trump signed the executive order reinstating the ban on contraceptive assistance to anyone even discussing the option of abortion, there were eight men in attendance, all white. No women.
Now the government of the Netherlands says it wants to help set up an international
abortion fund to help families across the world after US President
Donald Trump reinstated the so-called Mexico City policy.
Dutch official Lilianne Ploumen said that
the lack of financial support will lead to "dangerous backroom
procedures and higher maternal mortality. This
decision has far-reaching consequences above all for the women it
affects, who should be able to decide for themselves if they want a
child, but also for their husbands and children and for society as a
whole," Ploumen, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development
cooperation, said in a statement. "Banning abortion does not reduce the number of abortions."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/netherlands-trump-global-gag-rule/
