Trump bans funding for abortion assistance groups abroad, will impose HYDE amendment

President Trump signed an order Friday reinstating a policy that requires foreign nongovernmental agencies to certify that they do not provide or promote abortion if they receive federal funds to help with family planning.

Posture, sometimes called Mexico City Politics He referred to opponents as the “universal gag rule,” first introduced more than 40 years ago. Every Republican president has, in fact, put… Every democrat He has He canceled it.

Eight years ago, the first Trump administration not only reinstated the ban, but… Expand it To include organizations that comply with the rules but give money to others who do not.

Advocates say the policy, coupled with a law that bars us from paying for abortions worldwide, has a significant impact on abortion availability around the world — and also prevents aid money from flowing to health organizations for other purposes. They say it hurts reproductive and maternal health care in developing nations by cutting money to groups that provide services not related to abortion, including birth control, nutritional support for infants and treatment for HIV/AIDS.

Trump also signed an executive order on Friday requiring enforcement Hyde amendmentWhich restricts government funding for most abortions.

The amendment was already the law of the land under Biden administration“The previous administration ignored this common-sense policy,” the Trump administration argued.

A message for life

The executive actions came on the same day as the annual March for Life in Washington. In a video address to the crowd, Mr. Trump pledged “again we will stand proudly for families and for life” in his second term and again boasted about the nominations of three Supreme Court justices who have helped… Roe v. Wade.

“I was very proud to be a participant,” he said.

The crowds also cheered Mr. Trump’s decision Pardon a group of convicted anti-abortion activists Abortion clinic entrances.

His administration also acted on Friday to direct federal prosecutors to roll back enforcement of a federal law known as the FACE Act, for free access to clinic entrances. The 1994 Act makes it unlawful to harm, threaten or interfere with a person obtaining or providing reproductive health services, or to damage a facility where such services are provided.

The justice memorandum, obtained by CBS News, instructs prosecutors to enforce the law only in “extraordinary circumstances” or in cases where death, severe bodily injury or the result of significant property damage are involved. Most other cases will be left to local or law enforcement.

Vice President J.D. Vance addressed a March for Life rally and said the president was “delivered on his promise to end Roe,” appointed hundreds of anti-abortion judges and anti-abortion activists who he says “unjustly imprisoned.”

“Our country faces the return of the most pro-life American president in our lifetime,” Vance said.

Nicole Sjanja and

Robert Tie

He contributed to this report.