President Donald Trump on Friday rescinded former President Joe Biden's order expanding access to abortion and ordered that the federal government and U.S. taxpayers no longer fund abortions at home or abroad.
Trump signed presidential order Enact the “Hyde Amendment and similar laws that block federal funding for elective abortions, reflecting the longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for them.” . With that order, Trump rescinded two Biden-era orders It protects expanded access to abortion and accuses the previous administration of ignoring “common sense policy established by incorporating mandatory taxpayer funding for elective abortions into various federal programs.”
“It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund or facilitate elective abortion,” according to President Trump's executive order.
Signed by President Trump another executive order cancel President Biden Memorandum In 2021, a Reagan-era rule that supported funding abortions abroad and prohibited foreign nongovernmental organizations from funding abortions as a condition of receiving U.S. global health aid. Supported reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy. Mr. Trump had reinstated the system during his first term, but Mr. Biden reversed Mr. Trump's decision to reinstate it.
Today, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum reinstating the Mexico City Policy, which ensures that U.S. taxpayer funds do not support foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion in other countries.https://t.co/tYeA6J2qtO
— Department of State (@StateDept) January 25, 2025
The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services will now implement the reinstatement policy. According to the executive order, the Secretary of State will now “ensure that no U.S. taxpayer funds are directed to organizations or programs that support or participate in the administration of forced abortion or involuntary sterilization programs.” Obligations will be imposed.
planned parenting dubbed They called for the Mexico City policy to be repealed, calling it a “global gag rule” that is “dangerous” and “endangers the health and lives of women and girls around the world.”
President Trump signed the executive order a year after the Supreme Court's ruling, the same day he and Vice President J.D. Vance met at the 52nd March for Life, a pro-life campaign that has been held since 1974. did. Roe vs. Wade That a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion. (Related: 'We want more babies in the United States of America': President Trump and Vance draw large crowds after scaled-down inauguration ceremony)
Biden administration bows to pressure from Democratic pro-abortion activists and sidesteps Hyde Amendment First passed in 1976 The NPR prohibits the use of Medicaid to fund abortions, except in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or in circumstances that threaten the mother's life. reported. According to reports, Biden denounced the Hyde Amendment just two days after announcing his support for it during the 2019 presidential campaign. new york times.
