An executive order President Donald Trump The memoranda signed Friday will nullify two Biden memoranda and reinstate the Mexico City policy, which prohibits using taxpayer money 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The Mexico City Policy, initiated by the Reagan administration, has been repealed by every Democratic president and reinstated by every Republican president since its creation.
During the Biden administration, the Pentagon paid for military personnel traveling across state lines for abortionsand Veterans Affairs medical centers were allowed to offer abortion counseling and procedures to service members and their beneficiaries, Fox News Digital previously reported.
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, January 20. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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The administration too provided abortion access for migrants detained at the border and offered transportation of unaccompanied pregnant children to states without abortion restrictions.
The White House said that for nearly five decades, Congress has annually passed the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that restrict federal funding for elective abortion“reflecting a long-standing consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for this practice.”
Nuns arrive to participate in the annual March for Life Friday in Washington, DC (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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“However, the previous administration ignored these established, common-sense policies by entrenching forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety 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’s presidential memorandum, Protecting women’s health at home and abroadwas signed on January 28, 2021, asserting that the policy’s limitations would negatively impact women’s reproductive health and undermine U.S. partnerships in global health.
Pro-choice supporters hold signs during a rally. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump’s order rescinds two Biden executive actions that advanced access to abortions and included abortion in the definition of “reproductive health care.”
The language in the new decision clarified that the memorandum “does not purport to and does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities.” , its officers, employees or 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 deprives health care organizations in other countries that provide abortion services or information, even to victims of sexual violence,” CRR said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Many of these critical organizations will likely close their doors or be forced to stop offering or even talking about abortion services as a result.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President J.D. Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
CRR representatives on Friday evening also referred to the government’s Geneva Consensus Declaration, which is a joint initiative to “secure meaningful health and development gains for women; to protect life at all stages; to defend the family as the fundamental unit of society; and to work together across the UN system to realize these values,” said a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The CRR called the statement “an anti-reproductive and anti-LGBTQ political statement” that “deliberately misrepresents itself as an official international agreement and seeks to undermine the broad legal basis for reproductive rights as human rights.”
“The reinstatement of President Trump’s Global Gag Rule (GGR) and rejoining the Geneva Consensus are direct attacks on the health and human rights of millions of people around the world,” said Rachana Desai Martin, Chief Government Officer of the CRR and external relations officer.
Senator Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“We saw the devastating impact of the GGR during the last Trump administration, when contraception and essential reproductive services were cut,” Martin added. “There was a spike in deaths worldwide due to pregnancy, reproductive coercion and gender inequality. Many clinics and health programs closed, leaving vulnerable populations with nowhere to go for contraception, pregnancy care and other essential health care services.”
Live Action, a global human rights movement committed to ending abortion, posted a message on X after the order was signed.
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“Mexico City’s policy that ensures U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund the international murder of children through abortion has been reinstated by President Trump!” the message said.
Fox News Digital reached out for comment from Planned Parenthood and Physicians for Reproductive Health but did not immediately receive a response.
