In a step that global health workers say that they will probably have devastating consequences for women and girls around the world, President Donald Trump has reintroduced a policy that prohibits foreign aids on financing for abortion.
The so -called Mexico city policyWhat Trump restored with an executive order on Friday evening was introduced under Republican President Ronald Reagan and forbids foreign non -governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive US family means of family planning as a family planning method and abortion – -related advice and recommendations. It is known to the supporter of reproductive rights as a “global gag rule” and has been lifted and restored because the presidential administrations have changed the parties for many years.
“We saw the devastating effects of the global GAG rule during the last Trump administration as contraceptive and vital reproductive services. In an explanation, there was an increase in pregnancy -related deaths, reproductive compulsion and inequality of gender inequality worldwide, ”said Rachana of the” Many clinics and health programs have closed and nowhere in need of protection in order to maintain birth control, pregnancy treatment and other important health services. “
The reinstatement of the guideline was prescribed in Project 2025, one of the Heritage Foundation and many other organizations, including several anti-abortion groups, wrote documented document written by almost 1,000 pages.
“In order to prevent US foreign assistance from supporting the global abortion industry [the policy] And … complete gaps by applying the guideline to all foreign help, including humanitarian aid and improvement in your enforcement. ” Page 261 of the document reads. “The Executive Ordinance … should be moved largely to apply for all foreign support.”
The Executive Ordinance contains the explanation: “In coordination with the secretary for health and human services, I guess the foreign minister in such a way that it is legally permissible in order to expand a plan to expand the requirements of the restored memorandum for global health aid from all departments or agencies . “
Proponents in foreign aid organizations said that the change not only the access of abortions, but also the extensive reproductive health services, including HIV prevention and treatment, access to contraception, screening to sexually transmitted diseases and cancer as well as treatments for other infectious diseases will influence.
“An extended policy of the city of Mexico City will have far-reaching effects on the access of women and girls on life-saving health care,” said Janeen Madan Keller, Policy Fellow and deputy director of global health policy at the Center for Global Development. “How it is examined reduces Mexico city’s policy access to contraception, which – against the intended goal of politics – leads to more unplanned pregnancies and higher abortion rates.”
Madan Keller added when Trump reinstated the rule in his first term in 2017, other donors were able to strengthen the Budget of the United Nations population fund and bluntly.
“With many donors who are now lowering the auxiliary budgets, it is unclear whether they would cover the defect,” she said.
On the same day as the executive commands, the Trump administration again joined the so-called Geneva consensus declarationA global agreement that was launched by the USA and five other countries in 2020 in which there is no international right to abortion, and the countries are not obliged to finance or facilitate this, as a document shows Political. The pact also includes Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia and Uganda.
Hyde change
Trump has another executive order entitled “” on FridayImplementation of the hyde change”With reference to a federal determination that prohibits the utilize of federal funds such as Medicaid to pay abortions. However, Hyde allows funding for rape, incest or to save the life of a patient. The arrangement states that the former democratic administration of President Joe Biden “embedded embedded forced control financing of the election abdomen” in a variety of federal programs and two of the executive commands of biden from 2022 were lifted to enhance access to abortion.
Trump signed the commands at the end of a week in which he mostly breastfeeded about abortion. But after days of lobbying by leader of the abortion movement, Trump on Thursday Pardoned condemned abortion clinic block cader And early on Friday, a video speech held at the last minute in anti-abortation March for life.
Project 2025 refers to the Hyde change several times, citing bidens several times 2022 Executive Order This made it possible for the US health and human services -secretary to find paths to help pregnant people travel across national borders to receive abortion care. The Biden administration then interpreted Hyde so that it only applies to the abortion process itself.
Page 471 the document September 2022. It also means that HHS should complete a complete examination to determine compliance with the change and to permanently codify the hyde change of the law instead of approving it every year as part of an appropriation procedure.
Republican US Sens. John Kennedy from Louisiana and Roger Wicker from Mississippi presented an invoice At the beginning of January to codify and determine the change “A single state standard that prohibits the federal taxpayers from the financing of abortions.” It is unclear whether this draft law is an attempt to completely reduce the financing of Medicaid for the planned parenthood, which is strongly based on these means to provide sexual and reproductive health services such as contraception and screenings, also in countries with abortion bans. Cutting this financing is also a guideline from project 2025.
