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President Joe Biden repealed a major anti-abortion policy instated by the Trump administration by executive order Thursday afternoon, making it easier for organizations abroad to receive the funding they need to provide reproductive healthcare services.
The policy known primarily as the “global gag rule” or the Mexico City policy banned international groups that receive US aid from performing, facilitating, or even discussing abortion. The best way to describe [the executive orders] is to undo the damage Trump has done, Biden said as he signed the orders Thursday, sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. The memorandum reverses my predecessor s attack on women s health access, as we continue to battle COVID-19 it s even more critical Americans have meaningful access to health care.
Biden signs memorandum reversing Trump abortion access restrictions
President Joe Biden signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to reverse restrictions on abortion access domestically and abroad imposed and expanded by the Trump administration.
The memorandum will “reverse my predecessor’s attack on women’s health access,” Biden told reporters during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office.
He added that the measure “relates to protecting women’s health at home and abroad, and it reinstates the changes that were made to Title X and other things making it harder for women to have access to affordable health care as it relates to their reproductive rights.”
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However, it will take the President’s health officials time to address all of the measures, particularly as battling the coronavirus pandemic remains the top immediate priority. Some items would be easy to undo, but others involve regulations and waivers that can’t simply be voided. And some would need approval from Congress, which
On January 28, President Biden will revoke the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy allowing billions of dollars in American foreign aid to flood the developing world for funding abortions. In place since January 2017, the Protecting Life Policy (an expansion of the former Mexico City Policy) prevents foreign organizations that perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning from receiving global health funds from the U.S. government.
With the U.S. awarding approximately $10 billion for global health annually, the Policy’s impact on recipient countries is immense. The last evaluation indicated that the top two global abortion providers alone, International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, lost out on $145 million under the previous policy. Funds were directed instead to a broad array of pressing health needs including HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and infectious diseases a true benefit for the countries most ravaged by