Axing USAID was never about balancing the budget, as critics allege, but dealing a mortal blow to Washington’s woke export machine — especially on abortion.

Many pro-life Christians were skeptical of Donald Trump’s soft abortion stance during the 2024 campaign. They should take note. With a single stroke, Trump has done more to protect unborn lives overseas than any other leader in the world and deserves credit as America’s most pro-life president. Here’s why.
The Helms Amendment
The 1973 Helms Amendment, passed immediately after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, banned the use of foreign aid to pay for abortions. Democrats have tried for years to overturn this important law to make every American complicit in their war on the unborn, regardless of individual conscience. Those congressional efforts failed, so they turned to America’s foreign aid spigot: USAID.
Across its four-year span, the Biden administration funneled at least $1.2 billion through USAID into pro-abortion groups operating in destitute foreign countries. Many, if not all of them, abuse this largesse by lobbying to overturn the Helms Amendment. In other words, hardline leftists force pro-lifers to spend billions of dollars aborting black and brown babies despite Congress’s clear 52-year-old prohibition on exactly that. Then they use taxpayer money to try to legalize it.
Abortion Organizations Benefiting From U.S. Taxpayers
How many Americans realize that abortion is illegal across much of Africa? Or that Kenya’s constitution enshrines the right to life at conception? Yet American taxpayers gifted $113 million from USAID to Marie Stopes International (MSI), Britain’s own Planned Parenthood originally named after one of Adolf Hitler’s eugenicist admirers.
Nearly all of MSI’s clinics are based in Africa and southern Asia, in countries that (rightly) restrict abortion. In 2020, Kenyan police caught MSI abortionists dumping the decomposing corpses of 10 babies they’d illegally aborted in a dumpste...