Executive order President Donald Trump The signatory on Friday will rescind two Biden memorandums and reinstate the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote forced abortion or involuntary sterilization.
The Mexico City Policy, initiated by the Reagan administration, has been repealed by every Democratic president and reinstated by every Republican president since its inception.
During the Biden administration, the Pentagon paid service members to Traveling across state lines for an abortionand Veterans Affairs Medical Centers were permitted to offer abortion counseling and abortion procedures to service members and beneficiaries, Fox News Digital previously reported.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., January 20. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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Management too Provided access to abortion for immigrants She was detained at the border, offering to transport unaccompanied pregnant children into states without abortion restrictions.
The White House said that for nearly five decades, Congress has annually enacted the HYDE Amendment and similar laws that block federal funding for Elective abortion“reflects a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for this practice.”
Nuns arrive to participate in the annual March for Life on Friday in Washington, D.C (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
“However, the previous administration ignored this established policy by including forced taxpayer funding for elective abortion in a wide range of federal programs,” the White House wrote in a statement. “It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the coercive use of federal tax dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.”
Biden presidential memorandum, Protecting women's health at home and abroadsigned on January 28, 2021, claimed that the policy's restrictions negatively impacted women's reproductive health and undermined U.S. partnerships in global health efforts.
Pro-choice supporters hold signs during a rally. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump's order creates two Biden executive actions that enhanced access to abortion and included abortion in the definition of “reproductive health care.”
The language in the new order made clear that the memorandum “is not intended to, and does not create, any right, benefit, substantive, procedural, or enforceable at law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees, agents, or any other person.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) told Fox News Digital that the policy “will reduce access to abortion in countries around the world.”
“This far-reaching policy results in health institutions in other countries providing abortion services or information, even for victims of sexual assault,” CRR said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. “It is likely that many of these critical organizations will close as a result or be forced to stop providing or even talking about abortion services.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President J. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CRR representatives also pointed to the Department's Geneva Consensus Declaration on Friday night, a joint initiative “to secure meaningful health and development gains for women; to protect life at all stages; to defend the family as the basic unit of society; and to work together across the UN system to realize these values,” according to A statement issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The CRR called the declaration an “anti-reproductive rights and anti-LGBT political statement” that “deliberately misrepresents itself as a formal international agreement, and attempts to undermine the broad legal basis of reproductive rights as human rights.”
“President Trump's Global Reconciliation (GGR) and Geneva Consensus reinstatement are direct assaults on the health and human rights of millions of people around the world,” said Rachana Desai Martin, President of Government and Senior External Relations Officer.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“We saw the devastating impact of GGR during the last Trump administration when vital contraception and reproductive services were cut,” Martin added. “There has been a rise in pregnancy-related deaths, reproductive coercion and gender inequality around the world. Many health clinics and programs have closed, leaving vulnerable populations with nowhere to access birth control, pregnancy care and other vital health services.”
Action Live Action, a global human rights movement dedicated to ending abortion, posted on X after the order was signed.
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“Mexico City policy ensuring that US tax dollars do not fund children who are killing children internationally through abortion by President Trump!” The post said.
Fox News Digital requested comment from Planned Parenthood and Doctors for Reproductive Health, but did not immediately receive a response.
