President Trump Ends All Taxpayer Funding for International Abortions
President Donald Trump directed the expansion of the pro-life Mexico City Policy, effectively ending U.S. taxpayer funding for organizations that perform or promote abortions overseas as a method of family planning.
The expansion will will bar U.S. foreign assistance from subsidizing abortion. The State Department on Friday is expected to finalize three rules to expand the Mexico City Policy to protect foreign assistance from subsidizing abortions but also DEI and gender policies pushing the LBGTQ agenda.
This is a key pro-life achievement hailed by pro-life advocates as protecting unborn babies abroad.
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The policy, originally established by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, requires foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) receiving U.S. global health assistance to certify that they will not perform or actively promote abortion using funds from any source, including non-U.S. funds.
Trump reinstated the policy on January 24, 2025, revoking Biden-era rescissions and building on his first-term expansion that applied it to the vast majority of U.S. bilateral global health assistance
From that executive action: “I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021, for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad), and reinstate the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017, for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (The Mexico City Policy).”
The directive further states: “I direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the extent allowable by law, to implement a plan to extend the requirements of the reinstated Memorandum to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies.
“It adds: “I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
The reinstated policy, also known as Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), prohibits U.S. government global health funding from supporting foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortion. It also blocks foreign organizations receiving such grants from providing financial assistance to other foreign NGOs that do the same.
Recipients must certify compliance, and the requirements extend to contractors and subcontractors.
The reinstatement has defunded International Planned Parenthood Federation and other major abortion providers overseas, resulting in an estimated $100 million loss to International Planned Parenthood’s budget and hundreds of millions in broader impacts on pro-abortion groups.
Pro-life advocates praised the move as reversing Biden administration policies that forced American taxpayers to fund international abortion promotion.
Recent developments include the State Department finalizing rules on Friday to further expand the Mexico City Policy framework.
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