Volume XXI
Issue
1
Date
2019

The Trump Administration's Remarks on Universal Health Coverage are a Violation of International Law and a Call to Action

by Rachel Guy

Amid the chaos of the unfolding impeachment flurry, the Trump administration signaled a policy change that threatens more concrete injury to the rights and lives of the world’s most vulnerable women than the president’s forays into corruption. At the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly high-level meeting on universal health coverage in late September, Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, spoke on behalf of a coalition of U.N.member states to denounce the importance—and even the validity—of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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