Trump Signs New Pair Of Executive Orders Limiting Taxpayer-Funded Abortions Both At Home And Abroad

President Donald Trump revoked former President Joe Biden’s orders expanding abortion access and ordered that the federal government and U.S. taxpayers no longer fund abortions at home and abroad Friday.

Trump signed an executive order enforcing “the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that prevent Federal funding of elective abortion, reflecting a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice.” By that order, Trump revoked two Biden-era orders protecting expanding access to abortion, accusing the previous administration of disregarding “this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs.”

“It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion,” according to Trump’s executive order.

Trump signed another executive order revoking Biden’s Presidential Memorandum of 2021 that supported funding abortions abroad, and reinstating the Mexico City Policy — a Reagan-era rule that forbids foreign non-governmental organizations from funding abortions as a condition to receiving U.S. global health aid. Trump had reinstated it in his first term but Biden rescinded Trump’s reinstatement of it.

Today, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum reinstating the Mexico City Policy to ensure that no U.S. taxpayer money supports foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion in other nations.https://t.co/tYeA6J2qtO

— Department of State (@StateDept) January 25, 2025

The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services would now enforce the reinstated policy. The Secretary of State would now be obligated “to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization,” according to the executive order.

Planned Parenthood dubbed the Mexico City Policy a “global gag rule” and called for its rescission, claiming it was “dangerous” and “risks the health and lives of women and girls around the world.”

Trump signed the executive orders on the same day he and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at the 52nd March for Life, a pro-life campaign held since 1974, a year after the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that women had a constitutional right to abortion. (RELATED: ‘I Want More Babies In The United States Of America’: Trump, Vance Rouse Massive Crowd After Scaled-Down Inauguration)

The Biden administration, caving under pressure from Democratic pro-abortion activists, had sidestepped the Hyde Amendment — a law first passed in 1976 that bars the use of Medicaid to fund abortions except in the event of pregnancy from rape or incest, or of a life-threatening situation for the mother involved, NPR reported. Biden denounced the Hyde Amendment only two days after he had signaled support for it during his presidential campaign in 2019, according to the New York Times.