Donald Trump
Hehe......President
Trump who made anti-abortion policy one of his campaign promises, has
on Monday, announced the revocation, according to the President's
statement issued by the White House.
U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked the Presidential Memorandum
on Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning,
which allowed voluntary abortion in the U.S.
Trump, who has made anti-abortion policy one of his campaign
promises, announced the revocation on Monday, according to the
President’s statement issued by the White House and obtained by the
Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York.
“I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 23,
2009, for the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United
States Agency for International Development (Mexico City Policy and
Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning), and reinstate the
Presidential Memorandum of January 22, 2001, for the Administrator of
the United States Agency for International Development (Restoration of
the Mexico City Policy).
“I direct the Secretary of State, in coordination with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the extent allowable by law,
to implement a plan to extend the requirements of the reinstated
Memorandum to global health assistance furnished by all departments or
agencies.
“I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary
actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer
dollars do not fund organisations or programmes that support or
participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or
involuntary sterilisation.”
Trump said “the memorandum was not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at
law or in equity by any party against the United States, its
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents,
or any other person”.
“The Secretary of State is authorised and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register,” Trump’s statement read.
With the revocation, Trump has barred U.S federal funding for
foreign NGOs that support abortion, relaunching a battle that has long
divided Americans.
The abrogation came just two days after women led a massive protest
march in Washington to defend their rights, including to abortion.
The decision to ban foreign aid to groups that lobby in support of
abortion rights is certain to deepen concern among already apprehensive
U.S. family planning and women’s rights organisations, according to
observers.
Stenny Hoyer, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, sharply criticised Trump for using his first week in office “to attack women’s health”.
“It should be no surprise to the millions of women and men who
gathered in protest this weekend across the country and around the world
that Republicans are focused more on making it harder for women to
access health care than on the serious economic and security challenges
we face.”
The restrictions imposed on Monday prohibit foreign nongovernmental
organisations that receive U.S. family planning assistance from using
non-U.S. funding to provide abortion services, information, counseling
or referrals and from engaging in advocacy to promote abortion.
They were first put in place in 1984 by Republican president Ronald Reagan.
-NAN
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