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executive order president donald trump The one signed Friday would overturn two Biden memos and restore the Mexico City policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer funds to fund nongovernmental organizations to perform or promote forced abortions or involuntary sterilizations.
The Mexico City policy initiated by the Reagan administration has been reversed by every Democratic president and reinstated by Republican presidents since its creation.
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President Donald Trump signs the executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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The White House says that for nearly five decades, Congress has enacted the HYDE Amendment and similar laws every year to prevent federal funding elective abortion“reflecting the longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for this practice.”
Nuns come to attend annual march in Washington, D.C. on Friday (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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“However, the previous administration ignored this established, common-sense policy by coercing taxpayer funds into a variety of federal programs,” the White House wrote in a statement. “Consistent with the Hyde Amendment It is American policy to end the forced use of federal taxpayer funds to fund or promote electoral abortion.”
Biden’s Presidential Memo, Protecting women’s health at home and abroadsigned on January 28, 2021, alleges that the policy’s restrictions have negatively impacted women’s reproductive health and undermined U.S. partnerships in global health efforts.
Pro-choice supporters hold signs during the rally. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump’s order reverses two athletics executive actions that promoted access to abortion and included abortion in the definition of “reproductive health care.”
Language in the new order clarifies that the memorandum “is not intended to, and is not intended to, enforce in law or in equity any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, of any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities.” any rights or interests of its officers, employees or agents or any other person.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) told Fox News Digital that the policy “will reduce abortion access in countries around the world.”
“This far-reaching policy provides health organizations in other countries with access to abortion services or information, even for victims of sexual assault,” CRR said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “Many of these critical organizations It could lead to closures, or being forced to stop providing or even talking about abortion services.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in Tuesday in the Vice President’s Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CRR representatives on Friday night also referred to the government’s Geneva Consensus Declaration, which is a “joint initiative to ensure meaningful health and development achievements for women; to protect life at all stages; to defend the family as the basic unit of society; and to work together; Achieve these values throughout the United Nations system, according to a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
CRR called the declaration “an anti-production rights and anti-LGBTQ political statement” that “deliberately misrepresents itself as an official international agreement and seeks to undermine the broad legal basis for human rights as human rights.”
“Reinstating President Trump’s Global Gag Rule (GGR) and rejoining the Geneva Consensus is a direct attack on the health and human rights of millions of people around the world,” said Rachana Desai Martin, chief government and external relations officer at CRR.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“We saw the devastating impact of GGR during the last Trump administration when contraception and vital reproductive services were cut off,” Martin added. “Pregnancy-related deaths, reproductive coercion, and deaths from gender inequality all Surge. Many clinics and health plans are closed, leaving vulnerable populations without access to birth control pills, pregnancy care and other important health services.”
Field Action, a global human rights movement dedicated to ending abortion, signed the order and published it on X.
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“President Trump has reinstated the Mexico City policy that ensures U.S. tax dollars do not fund the murder of international children through abortion!” the post said.
Fox News Digital requested comment from Planned Parenthood and Doctors for Reproductive Health but did not immediately receive a response.
