On Friday, President Trump restored the policy of the old republics against abortion known as the name “Mexico City Base” Which prevents federal funding from going to any non -governmental organization abroad or promoting abortion.
The move came after thousands of opponents of abortion in Washington on Friday addressed the celebration of the fifty -second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in 1973 in a case against Wade, who established a national right to abortion and that the court nullified in 2022.
Federal law is already prohibited to use taxpayer funds to support abortion services abroad. But in 1984, President Ronald Reagan went further, as he prevented external aid to NGOs that discuss abortion as part of family planning services, or defend abortion rights, even if these organizations do not use American tax funds to do so.
In the four decades that followed, this policy had a swinging date. Democratic presidents, including Joseph Ra Biden Junior, were canceled and republican. It has been in effect for 21 years of forty years.
The return of Mr. Trump is not surprising. When he was nominated for the presidency in 2016, he took a strong position against abortion, and obtained the support of the Christian conservatives by promising to appoint judges in the Supreme Court who will fall. In the two and a half years since the overthrow of Pro, abortion became a more complicated issue for the Republicans, and Trump has not made it a focus of his campaign for 2024.
But Trump still has to tend to the right wing in his party, especially since his choice of the Minister of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, has, Scrub On abortion. During his visit to the members of the Senate in Capitol Hill last month, Kennedy Senator Josh Holie, Republican of Missouri, promised that he would support the restoration of policy as part of a large -scale agenda to combat abortion.
“He adhered to me to restore President Trump’s policies to spread in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.” Mr. Hawly wrote on social mediaUsing the first letters of the name of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services. “This includes the return of Mexico City policy and the end of taxpayer financing for abortion locally.”
In April 2023, when he was running for the presidency, Kennedy said that he would support the federal ban on abortion after the first three months of pregnancy, but then I retracted quickly. And his campaign issued a statement stating that “Mr. Kennedy’s position on abortion is that it is always the woman’s right to choose,” adding: “It does not support the legislation that prohibits abortion.”
The following year, published a Long message On social media to clarify his opinions. He wrote: “I support the emerging consensus that abortion should be unrestricted until a certain point.” “I think this point should be when the child is viable outside the womb.”
The reproductive rights defenders say that Mexico City’s policy has a devastating effect on women abroad, which leads to an increase in the number of unwanted pregnancy, and the reduction of family planning programs that are intensified, and sometimes drives women to search for unsafe abortions, Which is a major cause of maternal deaths. .
The last time that Mr. Trump returned this policy, when he took office for the first time in 2017, he also expanded it by directing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to determine the additional organizations that may fall under the embargo. Two years later, in 2019, Mr. Trump expanded policy to prevent federal funding for foreign groups that provide funds for other foreign groups that perform abortion.
