Post by Daniel on Jan 25, 2017 19:42:29 GMT -5
Pro-Life Victory: U.S. Taxpayers No Longer Forced to Fund Foreign Abortions
By Jay Sekulow
Hours ago, President Donald Trump fulfilled his first promise to the pro-life community by signing an Executive order reinstating Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of U.S. taxpayer money in foreign aid to fund or promote abortions outside of the United States.
This is a vital fight that we have been engaged in for years, battling to ensure that American taxpayers are not forced to fund abortions overseas. Even beyond that, it prevents American taxpayers from being forced to fund international organizations that even promote abortion. It not only defunds Planned Parenthood’s expansive international operations, but it also defunds the viciously pro-abortion United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
The Mexico City Policy was first implemented by President Reagan in 1984. As our full legal memo on the policy from 2009 lays out,
At the 1984 United Nations International Conference on Population in Mexico City, the United States announced that it would begin imposing additional restrictions on its disbursement of family planning funds to foreign nations and FNGOs. In its Policy Statement, the United States declared the following:
“The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) calls for legal protection for children before birth as well as after birth..."
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By Jay Sekulow
Hours ago, President Donald Trump fulfilled his first promise to the pro-life community by signing an Executive order reinstating Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City Policy, which prohibits the use of U.S. taxpayer money in foreign aid to fund or promote abortions outside of the United States.
This is a vital fight that we have been engaged in for years, battling to ensure that American taxpayers are not forced to fund abortions overseas. Even beyond that, it prevents American taxpayers from being forced to fund international organizations that even promote abortion. It not only defunds Planned Parenthood’s expansive international operations, but it also defunds the viciously pro-abortion United Nations Fund for Population Activities.
The Mexico City Policy was first implemented by President Reagan in 1984. As our full legal memo on the policy from 2009 lays out,
At the 1984 United Nations International Conference on Population in Mexico City, the United States announced that it would begin imposing additional restrictions on its disbursement of family planning funds to foreign nations and FNGOs. In its Policy Statement, the United States declared the following:
“The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) calls for legal protection for children before birth as well as after birth..."
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