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The Mexico City Policy. An Introduction. On January 23rd, 2017, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum1reinstating the Mexico City Policy, a policy that prevents certain U.S. foreign assistance from funding foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that perform or promote abortion.
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- When Has It Been in Effect?
- How Has It Been Instituted (and Rescinded)?
- Who Did The Policy Apply to?
- To What Assistance Did It Apply?
- What Activities Did It prohibit?
- Did It Restrict Direct U.S. Funding For Abortion Overseas?
- Has The Policy Prohibited Post-Abortion Care?
- What Has Been The Impact of The Policy?
- What Is The Definition of “Financial Support”?
- What Are The Next Steps in Rescinding The Expanded Policy?
The Mexico City Policy has been in effect for 21 of the past 36 years, primarily through executive action, and has been instated, rescinded, and reinstated by presidential administrations along party lines (see Table 1). The policy was first instituted in 1984 (taking effect in 1985) by President Ronald Reagan and continued to be in effect through ...
The Mexico City Policy has, for the most part, been instituted or rescinded through executive branch action (typically via presidential memoranda12). While Congress has the ability to institute the policy through legislation, this has happened only once in the past: a modified version of the policy was briefly applied by Congress during President C...
Historically, when in effect, the policy had applied to foreign NGOs as a condition for receiving U.S. family planning support and, under the Trump administration, most other bilateral global health assistance, either directly (as the main – or prime – recipient of U.S. funding) or indirectly (as a recipient of U.S. funding through an agreement wit...
“Assistance” includes “the provision of funds, commodities, equipment, or other in-kind global health assistance.”22 In the past, foreign NGOs have been required to adhere to the Mexico City Policy – when it was in effect – as a condition of receiving support through certain U.S. international funding streams: family planning assistance through the...
When in effect, the policy prohibited foreign NGOs that receive U.S. family planning assistance and, when expanded as during the Trump administration, most other U.S. bilateral global health assistance from using funds from any source (including non-U.S. funds) to “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.” In addition to...
U.S. funding for abortion was already restricted and remains restricted under several provisions of the law.36Specifically, before the Mexico City Policy was first announced in 1984, U.S. law already prohibited the use of U.S. aid: 1. to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practi...
The Mexico City Policy does not restrict the provision of post-abortion care, which is a supported activity of U.S. family planning assistance. Whether or not the Mexico City Policy is in effect, recipients of U.S. family planning assistance are allowed to use U.S. and non-U.S. funding to support post-abortion care,39no matter the circumstances of ...
Several studies have looked at the impact of the policy. A 2011 quantitative analysis by Bendavid, et. al, found a strong association between the Mexico City Policy and abortion rates in sub-Saharan Africa.40 This study was recently updated to include several more years of data, again identifying a strong association. Specifically, the updated stud...
The Trump administration also expanded the interpretation of “financial support” to apply to more funding and organizations, albeit indirectly. In February 2018, in the initial six-month review issued when then-Secretary of State Tillerson led the department, the Department of State report included an “action” statement to clarify the definition of...
Since President Biden has rescindedthe policy, agencies involved in foreign assistance, including the Department of State, USAID, HHS, and DoD, are required to “immediately cease” imposing the conditions of the Mexico City Policy in any future assistance awards; therefore, it can be expected that the standard provisions for grants and cooperative a...
Fact Sheet. The Mexico City Policy. Summary: The Mexico City Policy specifies that federal funds for family planning are available only to foreign nongovernmental organizations that agree not to perform or promote abortion as a method of family planning in other countries.
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THE WHITE HOUSE. Office of the Press Secretary. For Immediate Release. January 23, 2017. MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE. SUBJECT: . THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. The Mexico City Policy.
The Mexico City policy, sometimes referred to by its critics as the global gag rule, [1] is a former United States government policy that blocked U.S. federal funding for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provided abortion counseling or referrals, advocated to decriminalize abortion, or expanded abortion services.
