During this meeting, we updated our annual goals, objectives, and activities for the new year. We kicked-off our 3rd year of the MATCH Coalition. Jade Kyle Miles, Perinatal Clinical QI Specialist and Educator of North Carolina provided insights on key initiatives that are happening throughout the state. Joy presented on femtech investments, policies, and industry outlooks that impact maternal health innovation.įebruary 21, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern The program was broadcasted live from HIMSS23 at the Reach Healthcare Annual Maternal Health Influencers Gathering. MATCH Coalition meeting featured Joy Rios, Founder and CEO of HIT Like a Girl. Together we explored the needs, programs, and policies underway to help improve maternal-infant health and wellbeing throughout the state of South Carolina.Īpril 18, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Seals, MSPH, MPA,ĭirector Bureau of Maternal and Child Health at the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control. Pro-life UN observers hope the Trump administration will go further in explaining its responses in this cycle, in keeping with the unambiguous statement issued by Destro.May 16, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern “noted” recommendations that it provide support for abortion in humanitarian settings because it was incompatible with existing U.S. will review each of the specific recommendations it received and will respond to each by “supporting” or merely “noting” it. She defended Mexico City Policy, outlining four pillars: improving women’s health, protecting life at all stages, strengthening the family as foundational to society, and defending national sovereignty.įollowing the interactive dialogue, the U.S. Dorothy Fink, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health, spoke on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services. Among the most frequent topics were the federal use of the death penalty, the recent unrest over racial issues, and requests that the U.S. agencies responded to countries’ recommendations. In their statements during the dialogue, members of the Trump administration representing different U.S. Most of the participants, which included 116 countries, delivered their statements remotely. The ongoing session was originally scheduled for May, but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Universal Periodic Review, each of the 193 UN member countries is reviewed by the Human Rights Council during a five-year cycle. received only seven recommendations referring to “reproductive health” or abortion. This emphasis on “sexual and reproductive health services” was unprecedented, but not unexpected.ĭuring the first two cycles of the Universal Periodic Review, both of which occurred during the Obama administration, the U.S. to allow foreign assistance “to support safe abortion services, where legal in the host country” in a written comment. funding from foreign organizations that promote or provide abortions. foreign assistance from funding abortions, and the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, formerly called the Mexico City Policy, which bans U.S. to repeal the Helms Amendment, which bans U.S. More specifically, the Netherlands called on the U.S. to ensure universal access to “sexual and reproductive health services.” pro-life policies, twelve of which belong to the group of western European and allied countries. But we do reject the proposition that abortion is a matter of international human rights, and affirms that all lives, both born and unborn, should be protected.”Īltogether, fourteen countries criticized U.S. supports both domestic and international programs for women’s health at a very high level. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Destro told the governments, “Abortion is legal in the United States, and the U.S. has never supported the idea that it is a human right. Though abortion is legal in the United States, the U.S. sat in the dock while various European countries asserted that abortion is a human right. In a three-hour grilling during the Universal Periodic Review the U.S. GENEVA, November 13 (C-Fam) At the UN in Geneva last week, European countries attacked the U.S.
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