House Democrats are wasting no time in the new 116th Congress to push their radical agenda, with the new majority legislating government funds for an appropriations package that will fund abortions overseas.
If passed, this bill would reverse a regulation implemented by President Trump that forbids foreign, non-governmental organizations from receiving funds from the United States if they promote abortion as a form of family planning. The legislation, originally signed by President Ronald Reagan as the Mexico City policy, mandates that these organizations guarantee that U.S. dollars will not be used for abortions.
The package also designates 37.5 million dollars for the United Nations Population Fund, marking a 5 million dollar increase. The Trump Administration previously cut funding to this ‘human rights’ facet of the United Nations, which is notoriously tied to China’s population-control policies, specifically mandatory sterilization and abortions.
Anti-abortion groups, rightfully, reject this legislation that would allow U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.
Pro-abortion Democrats aren’t wasting any time in trying to force taxpayers to fund abortion >>> https://t.co/0TH2u97C5P
— Susan B. Anthony List (@SBAList) January 2, 2019
The Mexico City policy goes hand-in-hand with a similar domestic policy, the Hyde Amendment. Both prevent Americans from funding abortions, which is common-sense policy.
President Trump has doubled down on his predecessors’ prevention of taxpayer funds going toward abortion, both domestic and overseas; the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives seeks to undo every single one of President Trump’s accomplishments, even if it is on the back of the American taxpayer.