President Biden Signs Executive Order to Fund the Global Abortion Industry

Jan 29, 2021 by Jill

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D., C-Fam:

President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to fund the global abortion industry.

President Biden signed an executive order rescinding the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy of his predecessor Donald J. Trump this afternoon, also known as the Mexico City Policy. The policy prevented foreign abortion industry groups from receiving U.S. global health and family planning assistance.

The order also directs the U.S. Secretary of State to “withdraw co-sponsorship and signature from the Geneva Consensus Declaration,” a declaration of 35 countries that abortion is not an international human right signed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in October 2020. And it restores funding to the UN Population Fund, an agency that promotes abortion and partners with China’s coercive family planning bureaucracy.

Biden’s order effectively forces U.S. taxpayers to fund abortion giants International Planned Parenthood Federation, Marie Stopes International and hundreds of foreign groups that perform and promote abortion across the developing world, including by lobbying to repeal protections for the unborn.

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