Trump bans funding for groups that aid abortion overseas

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President Trump signed an bid Friday reinstating a argumentation that requires overseas nongovernmental agencies to certify that they don't supply oregon beforehand termination if they person U.S. national funds for household readying assistance.

The position, sometimes called the Mexico City Policy and referred to by opponents arsenic the "global gag rule," was archetypal introduced much than 40 years ago. Every Republican president has enactment it successful effect, and every Democrat has rescinded it.

Eight years ago, the archetypal Trump medication not lone brought backmost the prohibition but besides broadened it to see organizations that comply with the rules but springiness wealth to others that don't.

Advocates accidental the policy, coupled with a instrumentality that bars U.S. wealth from paying for termination astir the globe, has a large interaction connected termination availability worldwide — and besides blocks assistance wealth from flowing to wellness organizations for different purposes. They accidental it hurts reproductive and maternal wellness attraction successful processing nations by cutting funds to groups that connection captious non-abortion related services, including commencement control, nutritional enactment for infants and HIV/AIDS treatment.

Trump besides signed an enforcement bid Friday requiring the enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, which restricts authorities backing for astir abortions. 

The amendment was already the instrumentality of the onshore nether the Biden administration, but the Trump medication argued "the erstwhile medication disregarded this established, commonsense policy."

March for Life message

The enforcement actions came connected the aforesaid time arsenic the yearly March for Life successful Washington. In the video code to the crowd, Mr. Trump vowed "we volition again basal proudly for families and for life" successful his 2nd word and erstwhile again boasted astir nominating 3 Supreme Court justices who helped strike down Roe v. Wade.

"I was truthful arrogant to beryllium a participant," helium said. 

Crowds besides cheered Mr. Trump's determination to pardon a group of anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading termination session entrances

Vice President JD Vance addressed the rally and said the president "delivered connected his committedness of ending Roe," appointed hundreds of anti-abortion judges and pardoned anti-abortion activists helium says were "unjustly imprisoned."

"Our state faces the instrumentality of the astir pro-family, astir pro-life American president of our lifetimes," Vance said.

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