Domestic Causes, Global Consequences
The US Mexico City Policy's Global Impact on Intimate Partner Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9977035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mirko Heinzel (0000-0001-8801-8237, Maastricht University), Catherine Weaver (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isq/sqaf049 |
| OpenAlex | W4411751709 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 88 |
How does donor domestic ideology and partisan politics shape the lives of people in aid-dependent countries? In this paper, we study the impact of the United States Mexico City Policy, which—when in place—prohibits the disbursement of United States aid funds to foreign Non-Governmental Organizations that provide information or services related to abortion care. Since its 1984 inception, every Democratic president has rescinded it, while every Republican has reinstated it. While previous global public health studies reveal how the Mexico City Policy has actually increased unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion rates, we argue that these unintended consequences go further than previously understood. We argue that when women lose access to abortion care, they are more likely to lose their lives and suffer life-changing injuries due to violence by their partners. Using global data on United States aid and the health burden caused by intimate partner violence against women in up to 204 countries and territories between 1993 and 2019, we show that the burden of deaths and disability attributed to intimate partner violence increases by approximately 16 percent when the Mexico City Policy is in place
Abortion · Democracy · Development economics · Domestic violence · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Suicide prevention · Unintended consequences · Global Maternal and Child Health · International Development and Aid · Law · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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Intimate partner violence, abortion, and unintended pregnancy
Donors and domestic politics
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017
Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women in 2018
The impact of intimate partner violence on women's reproductive health and pregnancy outcome
The choice for multilateralism
The Political Economy of u.s. Foreign Aid
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Smoothing the Way or Stirring the Pot
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability
Bilateral Donors’ Interest vs. Recipients’ Development Motives in Aid Allocation
Pregnancy Intendedness and Physical Abuse Around the Time of Pregnancy
The Role of Intimate Partners in Women's Reasons for Seeking Abortion
Public Opinion and Foreign Aid
The Global Gag Rule
INTRAC’s Experience of Working with International NGOs on Aid Withdrawal and Exit Strategies from 2011 to 2016
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The Politics of Public Health Aid
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Ideology at the Water’s Edge
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |