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As we await the outcome of the 2020 election, we carry on with our pro-life work at the Population Research Institute.
The Trump Administration has proposed a new rule to extend the Mexico City Policy to government contracts. The Mexico City Policy is a policy that bans U.S. foreign aid dollars from being given to foreign NGOs like the International Planned Parenthood Federation that perform or promote abortion overseas. President Trump, as one of his first acts as president in 2017, reinstated a vastly expanded version of the Mexico City Policy that applies to approximately $9 billion worth of U.S. global health aid. President Trump expanded the Mexico City Policy so much that the policy now goes by a new name: Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA).
PLGHA has been one of President Trump’s greatest achievements to protect the unborn. It has helped to ensure that no U.S. tax dollars go to foreign organizations that perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning overseas.
Now, to make the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy even better, the Trump Administration this past September issued a new draft rule that would expand PLGHA to millions and millions of dollars the U.S. government awards every year to foreign NGOs in the form of federal contracts.
The trouble is that federal departments and agencies provide significant global health assistance funding through contracts each year. The new rule says that such funding is also subject to PLGHA terms. Simply put, abortion is not health care.
How can you help? Make your voice heard by sending in a comment in support of the proposed Mexico City Policy Rule.
What should you say? Something along the lines of:
I support the proposed rule under FAR Case 2018-002 to extend the requirements of the Mexico City Policy to all federal global health contracts across all departments or agencies and to the extent allowable by law. No U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to perform or promote abortion overseas through any international health programs or contracts. Abortion is not health care.
Go here to leave your comment. The whole process will take less than two minutes.
https://beta.regulations.gov/commenton/FAR-2018-0051-0001
