Posted on 03/26/2019 8:28:18 AM PDT by ebb tide
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) The Trump administration is strengthening the Mexico City Policy to bar taxpayer funds from organizations that support other pro-abortion groups in addition to backing abortion themselves, the secretary of state announced Tuesday morning.
Secretary Mike Pompeo confirmed to reporters that the administration is closing a loophole that permits backdoor funding schemes under which foreign aid recipients that dont commit or promote abortion themselves can still give money to other organizations that do, the Associated Press reports. The administration is also cutting an unspecified amount of aid to the Organization of American States (OAS) for its suspected pro-abortion lobbying across North and South America.
We will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry, Pompeo declared, according to Reuters.
The announcement is the Trump administrations latest step to improve on the Mexico City Policy (or Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance rule), a rule Republican presidents typically reinstate and Democrat presidents typically drop upon taking office.
Previously, it applied to approximately $60 million in foreign aid money, but President Donald Trump expanded it to cover about $8.8 billion in funds appropriated to the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of Defense, and to exclude organizations that promote abortions in addition to personally committing them.
The Trump administration has been the most pro-life administration in history, and Secretary Pompeo and President Trump should be thanked for closing the loopholes that allowed NGOs to take our taxpayer dollars and give them to sub-contractors that commit or promote abortions, Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins responded.
This is an 80-20 issue, and the American people have made it clear they do not want their taxpayer dollars subsidizing abortions, Hawkins continued. This step will start to rectify the mistakes we made in enshrining abortion into Kenyas constitution, a grave mistake made by the Obama administration.
The change will close between 90 and 95% of the loopholes in the existing Mexico City Policy, Students for Life added.
If the “breaking” means it “just came out” - then EVERY news items is “breaking”.
It suggests urgency, but this is being overused in various forms. FOX started this nonsense a few years back. Everything is “Breaking” and “Alert”. All suggest an urgency.
The Jussie Smollet thing is closer to breaking, including the shock factor.
The ultimate was 9/11. This isn’t close to that urgency. Nothing is going to immediately happen or change in major ways that anyone can see. It’s just a sign-off. Big deal. Not urgent.
We will refuse to provide assistance to foreign NGOs that give financial support to other foreign groups in the global abortion industry, Pompeo declared, according to Reuters.
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what are they (congresswampers) doing funding international NGO abortion business in the first place?
no wonder we’re $22 trillion in debt.
WINNING!
And domestic orgs like NPR
the only way to solve the border crisis is Regime change in Mexico or at the least forced Repricocity (borders open to US business and individual purchase of land)
cutting abortion funding wont help much
Thank God! And thank you, President Trump!
That’s the same thing Bush II did.
Y’all hear that “sucking sound”?
Today it is the swamp being drained.
GOD Bless Our President.
Really?
That’s your contribution. You want to start and argument over nitpicking the term “Breaking News”.
How about we let the moderators and the folks who run FR worry about those details.
Chill out.
THAT’S what we want to hear.
Bravo Mr. President!
Everyone just get out of President Trump’s way and let him do his job!!
I LOVE this President!!
He’s got a set on him and he’s not afraid to use ‘em!!
The right man, for the right time!!! Courageous!!!!!!
for later
For the unborn babies it IS breaking news.
Finally......
I'm old enough to remember Freepers by the dozens (hundreds?) arguing that Trump really was just lying about his Pro-Life stance.
great news! but how will the govt. really know because as we know, money can be moved from accounts..
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