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‘One-man anti-abortion army’: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal’s family planning services
Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts
“One, two, three,” says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. “Every three seconds a baby dies by abortion. One, two, three,” he repeats. Behind him, the word “Abortion” is projected on to a screen in a red font that drips down the slide to resemble blood. Underneath is written: Abortion is world history’s greatest genocide.
It is an uncompromising message in an unlikely location; a church in a remote valley in Nepal.
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