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resident Biden signed an executive order Thursday afternoon reversing the Mexico City policy, permitting U.S. aid money once again to fund groups that provide or promote abortion around the globe.
The policy was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in an effort to ensure that taxpayers were not required to indirectly fund abortion procedures performed in other countries. The policy has been undone via executive order by every subsequent Democratic administration and reinstated by each Republican one.
The Trump administration expanded the policy to include not only family planning funds distributed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development but also all foreign-health assistance provided by government agencies, including the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and the Defense Department. That expanded policy, “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance,” increased the amount of U.S. funding covered by the abortion prohibition from about $600 million to nearly $9 billion.
Abortion advocates and interest groups in the U.S. oppose the Mexico City policy; Planned Parenthood, for instance, has labeled it a “global gag rule.” During the presidential primary, the Biden campaign promised that his administration would undo the policy and permit U.S. aid money to fund abortions. --->READ MORE HERE
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday afternoon forcing U.S. taxpayers to fund abortions in foreign countries, claiming the new directive will “undo the damage [former President Donald] Trump has done.”
During his designated “health care” executive order spree, Biden signaled his plan to rescind the Mexico City policy, first implemented by Ronald Reagan and reinstated by Trump, which bans U.S. foreign aid from being directed to organizations that perform or encourage abortions. This reversal on the “Global Gag Rule” by Biden now ensures that the worldwide abortion industry will receive millions of dollars from U.S. citizens, many of whom have religious or moral objections to ending a human life in the womb.
“Across the country and around the world, people — particularly women, Black, Indigenous and other people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and those with low incomes — have been denied access to reproductive health care,” a statement from the White House read. “[T]he memorandum reflects the policy of the Biden-Harris Administration to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States, as well as globally.” --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories:
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