Today, one day after the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Obama will overturn the Global Gag Rule, which under the Bush administration prohibited American foreign aid from supporting health care organizations that provided abortion or referred women to abortion providers.

And in related news, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dismissed Mark Dybul, head of the office in charge of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Dybul oversaw PEPFAR’s abstinence-only programs. For more on his record, check out RH Reality Check.

Next up, brave progress on domestic reproductive rights, such as cutting off funding streams for abstinence-only education? I’ll believe that when I see it.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.