The incumbent Biden administration in the U.S. is to repeal the pro-life Mexico City Policy reinstated by Trump in 2017, it has been announced by Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci.
The Mexico City Policy, first enacted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, bans foreign NGOs from receiving U.S. family planning aid if they promote or perform abortions. Every Democratic administration has revoked the policy, while every Republican administration has reintroduced it on gaining office.
When Trump reinstated the policy during the first week of his presidency, he expanded its reach, which SPUC praised at the time. One group, MSI Reproductive Choices, which refused to abide by the rule, lost around $30 million in funding as a result.
Fauci’s announcement follows the news of President Biden’s nomination of pro-abortion Samantha Jane Power to head the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as reported by SPUC this week.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “While President Trump, speaking at the 74th UN General Assembly, vowed “never tire of defending innocent life” around the world, President Biden appears determined to undermine the right of the world’s unborn to life, as has been made clear this week.
“As Dr Daniel Frampton noted in a blog piece last year, U.S. foreign policy matters especially for the unborn, whom Trump, for all his flaws, had at least sought to protect – ‘being able to really hurt international organisations that insist on defining access to abortion as "essential" healthcare'.
“Obianuju Ekeocha, the noted African pro-life leader, has also said that ‘it has been disheartening to see western donor nations using the advantage of their wealth to push their anti-life position on African nations’.
“It appears that President Biden will almost certainly allow western nations to do so again.”
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