<p>This paper examines the effect of the Mexico City Policy, also called the Global Gag Rule, in India. The Gag Rule is a high-profile example of a coercive federal funding policy. It prevents Global South NGOs that receive US federal aid from working on abortion. The 2017 re-instatement of the Gag Rule and its expansion in 2019 was expected to devastate abortion services, advocacy, and discourse in the Global South. However, India is a peculiar example of a Global South country that was not directly or significantly impacted. On the contrary, abortion access was expanded under the law, and NGO advocacy and coalition-building for expanding access to safe abortion services in India was renewed while the Gag Rule was active. Using qualitative interviews and a historical analysis, I examine the Gag Rule in interaction with country-level “reproductive governance” apparatus in India. I argue that the protection of abortion services and advocacy from the Gag Rule is a by-product of India’s mode of reproductive governance, which is built on population control, itself an outcome of a historical US-India financial relationship and continued nationalist interest in targeted control over reproduction of minority populations. I demonstrate that the impact of transnational Global North funding policies is thus variable and mediated by the pre-existing policy landscape and form of reproductive governance.</p>