President Donald Trump has signed an executive order officially pulling taxpayer funding for abortions overseas, reversing former President Obama's gutting of what is known as the Mexico City Policy.
UPDATE: Trump signs executive order to ban U.S. non-governmental organizations with federal funding from providing abortions abroad
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Some background on the policy from LifeNews:
When pro-abortion former President Barack Obama took office, Obama overturned a policy that prevented funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy covered over $400 million in federal funds, part of which flowed to the abortion businesses International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International for their foreign efforts.
As LifeNews.com reported, the pro-life policy had been in place during the entirety of the Bush administration and Obama rescinded it on his first week in office. Named for a 1984 population conference where President Reagan initially announced it, the Mexico City Policy made it so family planning funds could only go to groups that would agree to not do abortions or lobby foreign nations to overturn their pro-life laws.
Domestic taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood must be rescinded through Congress. On the campaign trail, Trump expressed approval of taxpayer funding of the abortion giant so long as the money wasn't specifically used for the procedure.
Later this week, hundreds of thousands of pro-life protestors will attend the March for Life in Washington D.C.
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