On January 24, President Trump issued an Executive Order (full text) titled Enforcing the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment bars federal funding of elective abortions. The Executive Order revokes two Executive Orders issued by President Biden: Executive Order 14076: Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services and Executive Order 14079: Securing Access to Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services. (See prior posting.) President Trump also signed a Presidential Memorandum (full text) reinstating a 2017 Memorandum which enforced the Mexico City Policy -- a policy that has been enforced by Republican Administrations since 1985 and suspended by Democratic Administrations since then. The Policy is described by Wikipedia as follows:
The policy requires non-governmental organizations to "agree as a condition of their receipt of [U.S.] federal funds" that they would "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations". The policy has exceptions for abortions performed in response to rape, incest, or life-threatening conditions.
The Memorandum also directs the State Department to ensure that federal funds do not go to organizations or programs that support coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
The Trump White House issued a Fact Sheet titled President Donald J. Trump Enforces Overwhelmingly Popular Demand to Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion describing the President's actions.
