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PENNY STARR
\nBrietbart.com<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump is building on his efforts to protect unborn children with the announcement this week that the State Department is expanding foreign policy actions to prevent American taxpayers from paying for abortions around the globe.<\/h3>\n
After a conference call with reporters, a senior administration official\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Breitbart News that the implementation of the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (PLGHA) is going to save countless lives around the world by preventing the funding of organizations that promote or provide abortions, including International Planned Parenthood. This is according to reports released after the call.<\/p>\n \u201cThe purpose of the policy is to prevent American taxpayers from subsidizing abortion through global health assistance provided for populations in need,\u201d the executive summary of the PLGHA report said:<\/p>\n As President Trump said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in September of 2019, \u201cAmericans will also never tire of defending innocent life [\u2026and] we in America believe that every child \u2014 born and unborn \u2014 is a sacred gift from God.\u201d Notably, two of the largest and most-vocal organizations that have attempted to assert a global right to abortion on demand\u200b, International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, declined to agree to PLGHA and therefore forfeited their eligibility for global health assistance funding from the U.S. Government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Breitbart News asked about how much money these two abortion giants are forfeiting and a senior administration official said the combined loss is more than $140 million in annual funding.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump is the most pro-life president in history, and he backs up his pro-life commitments with real action,\u201d a senior administration told Breitbart News. \u201cWe\u2019re proud that we continue to support women and girls abroad and conduct and fund rigorous, cutting-edge scientific research at home while standing firm for the dignity of unborn life.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials on the call also touted Trump\u2019s dedication to \u201cdefending unborn life around the world\u201d and that the due diligence done in researching this issue of putting pro-life policies into foreign policy shows that \u201cpro-life policies do not stand in the way of health care for women.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials on the White House call with reporters announced the release of two reports \u2014 one from the National Institutes of Health Report on the Human Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board- FY2020 and the Review of the Implementation the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy as mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n A senior administration official noted that the results of the ethics advisory board are in stark contrast to what President Bill Clinton did shortly after his election in 1993 on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion on demand the law of the land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on the move:<\/p>\n With a stroke of a pen, President Clinton marked the 20th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade on Friday by dismantling a series of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Administration abortion restrictions, only hours after tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators rallied across the street from the White House.<\/p>\n \u201cOur vision should be of an America where abortion is safe and legal but rare,\u201d Clinton said, as, on his third day in office, he fulfilled a campaign promise to abortion rights supporters and medical research organizations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clinton\u2019s executive order included:<\/p>\n \u2022 Ended a five-year ban on fetal tissue research, which scientists believe holds the possibility of benefiting patients with Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, diabetes, Huntington\u2019s disease, spinal cord injuries and other conditions.<\/p>\n \u2022 Overturned the so-called gag rule that restricted abortion counseling at 4,000 federally funded family planning clinics nationwide.<\/p>\n \u2022 Revoked prohibitions on the importation of RU486\u2013known as the French \u201cabortion pill\u201d\u2013for personal use, if the Food and Drug Administration determines that there is no justification for the prohibitions.<\/p>\n \u2022 Allowed abortions at U.S. military hospitals overseas, if they are paid for privately.<\/p>\n \u2022 Reversed a 1984 order which prevented the United States from providing foreign aid to overseas organizations that perform or promote abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n