President Trump signed an executive order reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which blocks NGOs that promote or perform abortions from getting federal funding.
He also issued a second executive order, further banning federal funding from being used for abortions.
Here’s more from Real Clear Politics:
Aboard Air Force One, while en route to view wildfire devastation in California, President Trump signed a series of executive actions aimed at preventing the use of federal taxpayer dollars from funding abortion both overseas and within the United States, RealClearPolitics is first to report.
The first, a presidential memorandum, reinstates the so-called Mexico City Policy, which prohibits international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortion from receiving federal funding. The second, an executive order, further cements the Hyde Amendment, a measure that bans federal funding for abortion.
The latest moves by Trump are an attempt to rescind four years of former President Biden’s abortion initiatives and reinstate the status quo from before Biden took office, a White House official said.
Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy, and while he never successfully overturned the Hyde Amendment, his administration took numerous steps at the federal level to expand abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Introduced during the Reagan administration, the Mexico City Policy, or “global gag rule” as it is known by its critics, has bounced back and forth on the federal registrar. Every Democratic president has rescinded the policy, only for every Republican president to subsequently reinstate it. The new president did not break from this pattern.
A readout of the Trump order states that the president will reinstate the policy, as he did previously in 2017, ensuring “that no U.S. taxpayer money supports foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion in other nations.” It also extends the policy to apply to “global health assistance,” as the president had ordered in 2020 during his previous term.
A great move by President Trump after the March for Life.