Trump resinstates Ronald Reagan's 'Mexico City Policy'

President Donald Trump is barely a week into his second term in the White House, and he's already accomplished more in that week than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did in four years

One of those accomplishments includes reinstating the Mexico City Policy, "which forbids using taxpayer dollars to fund nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization," Fox News reported.

The Mexico City Policy was enacted originally by the late President Ronald Reagan.

Since its inception, the policy has been rescinded by every Democrat administration that has taken over the White House and reinstated by every Republican administration.

Fox News noted:

During the Biden administration, the Pentagon paid for service members to travel over state lines for abortions, and Veterans Affairs medical centers were allowed to offer abortion counseling and abortion procedures for service members and their beneficiaries, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Additionally, the Biden administration provided access to abortion procedures for illegal migrants detained at the southern U.S. border. Unaccompanied pregnant children were transported to states without abortion restrictions.

GREAT move by President Trump reinstating the Mexico City policy which ensures American taxpayers do NOT fund the killing of babies overseas!

Next up: Let’s do the same thing for American babies and defund every cent of the $700 million tax dollars from Planned Parenthood! pic.twitter.com/8tcTMVpWlL

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) January 25, 2025

Fox News added:

The White House said that, for nearly five decades, Congress annually enacted 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."

Trump's White House released a statement regarding the reinstatement of the Reagan-era policy.

"However, the previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs," the White House statement read.

It added, "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."

Trump's executive order, which also rescinded other abortion access programs and altered the language in standing policies, sparked backlash from pro-abortion advocates, like the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR).

"This far-reaching policy defunds health organizations in other countries that provide abortion services or information, even for victims of sexual assault," CRR said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"Many of these critical organizations will likely shutter as a result or be forced to stop providing or even talking about abortion services," the group lamented.