J.K. Rowling has some important words about one of Donald Trump's first acts as POTUS.
Donald Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy010 Archives known as the global gag rule, which prevents non-governmental organisations working abroad from receiving federal funding for family planning if they perform abortions or even talk to their clients about abortion.
SEE ALSO: The one photo that shows exactly why women are fighting TrumpThe Harry Potterauthor shared her thoughts on Twitter about his reinstatement of the policy, and she didn't hold back. Rowling tweeted screenshots of a Guttmacher Institute study into the impact of the global gag rule, which found that thousands of women's lives have been placed a risk as a result of the policy.
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"The #globalgagrule risks the lives of some of the poorest women in the world," wrote Rowling.
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Rowling also stated that the policy makes abortion "more unsafe".
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Rowling addressed some of the responses she was receiving, which appeared to make light of the reinstatement of the policy.
"Lady, if you think the deaths of vulnerable African women are a suitable subject for a pussy joke, you'd better hope there's no hell," wrote Rowling.
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Rowling wasn't alone in voicing her concerns about the threat posed by the policy to women and girls overseas.
NARAL Pro-Choice America echoed Rowling's statements that the policy will endanger the lives of women and girls overseas.
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Cecile Richards -- president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- said that the policy will cause clinic closures around the world, resulting in "unsafe abortion".
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She also said that the world's most vulnerable women will suffer "as a direct result of this policy."
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