Tag: Mexico City Policy

Trump Administration Stops Backdoor Funding to Foreign Organizations that Perform Abortion

By Jonathan Abbamonte U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a press briefing Tuesday, announced the Trump administration is expanding the Mexico City Policy to stop backdoor funding to pro-abortion organizations. Under the new expanded policy, foreign NGOs [Non Governmental Organizations] receiving U.S. foreign health assistance will be prohibited from providing funding to any other …

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National Right to Life Praises Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, State Department for Ensuring Enforcement of Mexico City Policy

WASHINGTON – The National Right to Life Committee today praised U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump Administration for pledging to enforce, to the broadest extent possible, regulations under the “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance” program that protect U.S. foreign aid funding from being used to pay for or promote abortion overseas. …

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Trump’s Enforcement of Mexico City Policy is a Major Victory in Protecting Life

By Rep. Chris Smith Editor’s note. Elsewhere today, we’ve posted NRLC’s praise for U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump Administration for pledging to enforce, to the broadest extent possible, regulations under the “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance” program that protect U.S. foreign aid funding from being used to pay for or …

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Helping Women Doesn’t Mean Advocating Abortion. Quite the Opposite, In Fact.

By Hannah Ellis This November, member nations of the “Group of 7” (G-7) met in Italy to discuss current global health issues and challenges. To the outrage of abortion activists, the G-7 members landed on language that omits abortion terms under the “Gender Perspective in Health Policies and Rights for Women, Children and Adolescents” section …

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Opponents of President Trump’s Global Pro-Life Policy lament impact

Editor’s note. This is excerpted from an analysis written by the PNCI–Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues and is reposted with permission. “NGOs” are Non-Governmental Organizations.”SHRH” stands for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights. Pro-abortion NGOs gathered in Brussels to commiserate over the impact of the decision by President Trump to reissue and expand the US foreign …

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Trump’s Expansion of Mexico City Policy Is a Major Victory in Protecting Life

By Rep. Chris Smith Someday, future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, so blessed and endowed with the capacity to protect and enhance vulnerable human life, could have instead so aggressively promoted death to children by abortion—both here and overseas. They …

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Global Abortion Industry Seeks Funding and Support in Europe

Editor’s note. This appeared at the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues [PNCI] and is reposted with permission. The pro-life action of President Trump by reissuing and expanding the Mexico City Policy (MCP) has resulted in non-US organizations that perform or promote abortion choosing to continue their abortion work and to lose US funding estimated to …

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Obama does serious harm but no human rights abuse need be forever

By Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) Editor’s note. The following are Rep. Chris Smith’s full remarks that were shortened for delivery at the January 27 March for Life because there were so many pro-life congressmen and congresswomen who wanted to speak. Ex-President Obama—the abortion president—did serious harm. No human rights abuse, however, need be forever. So, …

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One Century, One Hundred Countries, One Billion Unborn Lives Lost

Abortion Worldwide Report Released By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research How many abortions have there been in the world since abortion first became legalized in the modern era in Russia? In how many countries is abortion legal today? How reliable are the numbers that have been published and is there …

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President Trump Takes Global Pro-Life Action

By Marie Smith President Donald Trump has reissued and expanded the Mexico City Policy, which prevents foreign non-governmental organizations [NGOs] that perform or promote abortion from receiving U.S. funds unless they pledge to stop performing or promoting abortion as a method of family planning, regardless of the funding source. The Mexico City Policy (MCP) was …

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An amazing first three days delights pro-lifers

By Dave Andrusko Republican lawmakers from both the House and Senate, almost all of whom are pro-life, are gathered in Philadelphia for a three-day policy retreat. This comes five days after pro-life Donald Trump was inaugurated our 45th President (having defeated media favorite pro-abortion Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) and two days before the annual …

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President Trump restores policy preventing organizations that promote abortion overseas from receiving U.S. Foreign Aid

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump today took executive action to restore a key pro-life policy, sometimes called the “Mexico City Policy.” The policy announced this morning is similar to a policy that had been in place in Republican administrations since 1984, when it was announced by authority of President Reagan at an international population-control conference …

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