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CV NEWS FEED // Abortion advocates are lamenting that the Mexico City Policy will be reinstated under President-elect Donald Trump, cutting off U.S. federal funding for international abortion groups.
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) reports that in his first term, the President-elect expanded the policy to deny U.S. funding for any global health assistance that provides abortion, rather than just for so-called “family planning” organizations.
Rachel Clement, Population Action International (PAI)’s senior director of U.S. government strategy, noted in a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health webinar that “if Trump expanded the policy to include all foreign assistance, it could affect $51 billion in aid,” according to C-Fam.
C-Fam also reports that under Trump’s last presidency, Planned Parenthood and MSI Reproductive Choices, another international abortion federation, refused to comply with the policy, losing their funding from the U.S.
Beth Schlater, the senior director of U.S. engagement for MSI, stated that 20,000 maternal deaths occurred after the Mexico City Policy was reinstated.
“She blamed the policy, not MSI’s prioritization of abortion over U.S. funding, for those deaths,” C-Fam stated.
Esther Kimani, the executive director and founder of the Kenya-based Zamara Foundation, a pro-abortion organization that Planned Parenthood funds, stated that the policy strengthened pro-life organizations in Kenya.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recently promised to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, as CatholicVote previously reported. CatholicVote also reported that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, soon to be the heads of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), promised to cut excessive government spending of taxpayers’ money, specifically listing the “nearly $300 million [given] to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”
