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BREAKING: Trump Signs Order Defunding International Planned Parenthood, and Stopping Federal Funding of Foreign Abortions"This is a vital step in the journey to make America great again, recognizing and affirming the universal ideal that all human beings have inherent worth and dignity, regardless of their age or nationality. I thank President Trump for issuing an executive order in keeping with his campaign promise that he will protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions." -Tony Perkins, president-Family Research Council
A cultural political football, the policy was first enacted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and was maintained by President George H.W. Bush until it was rescinded first by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993. Eight years later, President George W. Bush reinstated Mexico City and it was in effect until Barack Obama reversed it upon entering office in 2009. The Mexico City Policy bans funding to organizations that perform abortions overseas or lobby for legalizing them in foreign nations. Trump's pro-life action comes a day after the 44th anniversary of the notorious Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, which along with the Court's Doe v. Bolton decision, established abortion-on-demand as the law of the land. Expectations are high among pro-life activists that Trump's executive order will be the first of several pro-life actions taken by the White House in concert with Republicans who control Congress. In 2009, when Obama rescinded the pro-life Mexico City policy, the National Right to Life Committee described it as follows: "Basically, the policy required grantees to refrain from performing abortions (except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest), or lobbying to legalize abortion, or otherwise promoting abortion as a birth-control method. Critics disparaged the policy as a ‘global gag rule.'" Pro-abortion feminists were complaining loudly over Trump's expected reinstatement of the Mexico City abortion ban. IPPF retweeted a tweet saying... Click here to continue reading. 
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