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President Trump's Funding Ban Forces International Abortion Giants to Cut African Operations

Calvin Freiburger : May 24, 2018  LifeSiteNews.com

The abortion giants' financial woes stem from Trump's reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy last year, which bars the United States' $8.8 billion in foreign aid from being distributed to entities that perform abortions.

(Africa)— [Lifesitenews.com] Two of the world's most prolific abortion performers have been forced to partially shut down their operations in Africa, thanks to one of Donald Trump's earliest actions as president. (Photo: a baby with mother in Uganda/credit: Human Life International/via LifeSiteNews)

The UK-based Marie Stopes International (MSI) has closed 22 of its 62 Madagascar-based outreach teams, 17 of its 35 in Uganda, and 600 of its 1,200 in Zimbabwe, Church Militant reported. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has closed 22 programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Both groups will also be canceling programs in Togo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, and Burkina Faso.

"Commitments have been made, but the money has not been forthcoming," IPPF's Kwamboka team complained. "This reliance on aid from other countries ... cannot go on."

The abortion giants' financial woes stem from Trump's reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy last year, which bars the United States' $8.8 billion in foreign aid from being distributed to entities that perform abortions. Since Ronald Reagan conceived the policy, each president routinely reverses his opposing-party predecessor's decision on it upon taking office, although Trump took the additional step of expanding it to groups that promote or discuss it.

The policy requires foreign aid recipients to certify that they will not "perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in foreign countries or provide financial support to any other foreign (NGO) that conducts such activities"...

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