sara casey: unfortunately we see the effects on reproductive rights in the global south.hoice movements around the world. it threatens the local advancements in the sexual reproductive health and rights. we are seeing a lot of funding from the religious right going to fund anti-choice movements in the global south and they use similar tactics. let us take kenya for example, their growing influence of the anti has slowed progress on addressing unsafe abortion, one of the major causes of maternal death in the country. there was a high court ruling that affirmed abortion is a fundamenconstitution and directd parliament to enact reforms to make it accessible. but under backlash from the antichoice movement it has stayed the ruling which also partly relied on roe v. wade in the ru have also were trying to put in a family-planning law that would enact the framework under which [inaudible] in accordance with the local0j laws but antichoice movements largely funded by the u.s. ended up causing that to be withdrawn. firmware in the u.s.? sara: a lot of the religious right. samanth