1.24.25 – Life News
“Trump Defunds International Planned Parenthood”
By Steven Ertelt
[COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: During the March for Life in Washington, D. C. on 1.24.25, Trump announced that 23 pro-life, “political” prisoners had been pardoned.
Many of these were elderly pro-lifers who had simply been exercising their right to free speech outside abortion clinics, and for that they were put in prison by Biden/Kamala.
Leading up to the Nov. 2024 elections, I had conversations with leading Christians who spoke out loudly with their articles and podcasts promoting the idea that “the right thing to do was not to vote.”
Of course, if their advice had been followed, Kamala Harris would now be President; and her persecution of pro-lifers and the killing of unborn babies would have continued.
On 1.24.25 Trump even went further to reverse Joe Biden and Kamala’s persecution of pro-life Christians.
Trump completely reversed Biden’s policy that was forcing Americans to fund International Planned Parenthood.
As usual, Trump did not go halfway but now has applied this prohibition to foreign contracts as well including many global health assistance funds and U. S. programs that are covered under the policy.
***No more using our American tax dollars to promote abortions overseas!]
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Excerpts from this article: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/01/24/trump-defunds-international-planned-parenthood/
President Donald Trump added to his excellent pro-life record today by reversing Joe Biden’s policy forcing Americans to fund International Planned Parenthood.
While on Air Force One today, President Trump signed crucial pro-life executive orders which pro-life advocates have strongly prioritized and advocated for.
During his first week in office last term, Trump signed the Mexico City policy in one of his first acts as president.
The pro-life policy prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas.
The move defunded two major abortion chains of hundreds of millions of American tax dollars.
The International Planned Parenthood Federation alone estimated a $100 million loss from its budget.
The Mexico City policy, which began with President Ronald Reagan, historically has been supported by pro-life presidents and rescinded by pro-abortion presidents.
Trump went further, though.
He not only reinstated the policy but also expanded it by increasing the number of global health assistance funds and government programs that are covered under the policy.
Today, Trump revoked Biden’s executive order canceling the Mexico City Policy…
…The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
The Mexico City Policy is a policy that prohibits U.S. government global health funding from being used to fund foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that perform or promote abortion.
…In 2017, the Trump administration renamed the Mexico City Policy the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA).
Currently, the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy only applies to certain kinds of U.S. government awards—the policy currently only applies grants and cooperative agreements.
The new proposed rule issued by the Trump administration last week, however, would extend the policy to contracts as well.
The policy requires foreign contractors that sign onto U.S. government global health contracts to certify that they will not perform or promote abortion or provide financial assistance to any foreign pro-abortion organization for the duration of their award.
Foreign contractors would be banned from conducting any activities directly aimed at encouraging women to seek abortion and they would be prohibited from lobbying activities in support of the legalization of abortion.
The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy [a.k.a., Mexico City Policy] is included as a clause in their contract agreement and contractors would be required to pass down the policy to any subcontractors.
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