"President Trump has purposely put the lives of millions of women, girls and others who can get pregnant at risk," a director at Amnesty International said in a statement to Jezebel.

We must act to safeguard reproductive healthcare and forge a path less reliant on US assistance, says Carole Sekimpi As president of the United States, Donald Trump has the power to affect lives and healthcare well beyond his country’s borders.

The move, announced in a presidential memorandum Friday, revives a policy that Trump and many other Republican presidents have implemented.