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President Donald Trump has reinstated the “Mexico City Policy,” a longstanding ban on government funding of foreign organizations that provide and promote abortions.
The president on Friday issued an executive order revoking former President Joe Biden’s 2021 directive that had axed the decades-old policy.
The rule was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and has been rescinded by every Democratic president—and re-implemented by every Republican one—since then. Trump had expanded the rule in his first term to cover several new government health initiatives.
The rule forbids taxpayer funding of foreign non-governmental organizations that promote or perform abortions as family planning. Foreign governments and some international groups are exempt from the rule.
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The president on Friday issued an executive order revoking former President Joe Biden’s 2021 directive that had axed the decades-old policy.
The rule was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1985 and has been rescinded by every Democratic president—and re-implemented by every Republican one—since then. Trump had expanded the rule in his first term to cover several new government health initiatives.
The rule forbids taxpayer funding of foreign non-governmental organizations that promote or perform abortions as family planning. Foreign governments and some international groups are exempt from the rule.
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