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Posted on 05/12/2025 11:14:45 AM PDT by Morgana
The Trump administration has fully implemented the defunding of the UNFPA that it announced back in March and announced today that no new funding will the directed to it. And the pro-abortion agency is unhappy.
As LifeNews reported then, Trump has ordered the defunding of the UNFPA, a United Nations population control agency which promotes abortions worldwide.
This is a continuation of his pro-life policy from his previous administration. In 2017, Trump signed an executive order defunding the UN population group because it pushes abortions on other countries and has worked with China for decades to implement its forced abortion population control policies.
Trump officials previously informed the UN Population Fund that nearly all of its grants would be discontinued. That defunding has taken place – with some $335 million in taxpayer funds yanked from the pro-abortion UN agency. Now, Trump officials have informed the UN group that new funding will not take place in future years.
In a statement to LifeNews, UNFPA officials decried the defunding.
“UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, notes with deep regret that the United States of America has announced its intention to deny future funding to the organization by triggering the Kemp-Kasten Amendment,” it said. “It comes in addition to termination notices UNFPA has already received … amounting to some $335 million in funding.”
“UNFPA remains keen to maintain an open dialogue with the US Government, including through the UNFPA Executive Board, of which the USA is a member. We urge the United States to reconsider its stance,” it said.
A reconsideration of the defunding would be easy if the UNFPA stopped promoting abortions worldwide, but the UN agency is more devoted to its abortion agenda that humanitarian work that could receive federal funding.
The defending is a result of the pro-life executive order Trump signed in January that prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas. Thr order directed the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
The new memorandum specifically directs the Secretary of State to review programs under the Kemp-Kasten amendment, a provision of U.S. law that states that no U.S. funds may be made available to “any organization or program which, as determined by the [p]resident of the United States, supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
During his first week in office last term, Trump signed the Mexico City policy in one of his first acts as president. The pro-life policy prohibits American tax dollars to groups that promote or provide abortions overseas. The move defunded two major abortion chains of hundreds of millions of American tax dollars. The International Planned Parenthood Federation alone estimated a $100 million loss from its budget.
The Mexico City policy, which began with President Ronald Reagan, historically has been supported by pro-life presidents and rescinded by pro-abortion presidents. Trump went further though. He not only reinstated the policy but also expanded it by increasing the number of global health assistance funds and government programs that are covered under the policy.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a long history of supporting China’s population control regime.
According to information from he Family Research Council, both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush cut off funding to the UNFPA during their administrations. In 1993, President Bill Clinton resumed funding for UNFPA, but for fiscal year 1999 signed a foreign aid appropriations bill that zeroed out funding for UNFPA. Funding to UNFPA was again completely cut off under President George W. Bush.
In 2008, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell explained: “UNFPA’s support of, and involvement in, China’s population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion. Therefore, it is not permissible to continue funding UNFPA at this time.”
President Obama resumed U.S. taxpayer funding of UNFPA in 2009. From 2009 to 2016, over $300 million was appropriated for UNFPA.
Here is more on the policy:
The Mexico City Policy is a policy that prohibits U.S. government global health funding from being used to fund foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that perform or promote abortion. The policy also blocks foreign organizations that receive global health grants from providing any type of financial assistance to other foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortion.
In 2017, the Trump administration renamed the Mexico City Policy the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy (PLGHA).
Currently, the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy only applies to certain kinds of U.S. government awards—the policy currently only applies grants and cooperative agreements. The new proposed rule issued by the Trump administration last week, however, would extend the policy to contracts as well.
The policy requires foreign contractors that sign onto U.S. government global health contracts to certify that they will not perform or promote abortion or provide financial assistance to any foreign pro-abortion organization for the duration of their award. Foreign contractors would be banned from conducting any activities directly aimed at encouraging women to seek abortion and they would be prohibited from lobbying activities in support of the legalization of abortion.
The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy in included as a clause in their contract agreement and contractors would be required to pass down the policy to any subcontractors.
Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, previously told LifeNews:
“UNFPA has been found to be complicit with coercive population control in China in the past, and I have no doubt that any unbiased investigation would find them complicit again. I have long advocated for the defunding of UNFPA.”
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$335 million?
HOORAY President Trump!
The UN is nothing but a Money Pit that goes into the pockets of the Idiots countries send to NYC
I know. What were they doing with that much?
It’s a start...
I love everyone one of these moves, keep it up, Mr. President. “A million here, a million there and pretty soon we are talking about real money.”
-Everett Dirkson in 1962
Has a judge chimed in to say he can’t do this?
Doesn’t seem like much...but it’s 1/3 of a billion...and THAT seems like a lot...
Soon.
Paging Judge Boarsburg.
Another great day. More winning.
(And the pro-abortion agency is unhappy.)
WONDERFUL!! 🥳🎇🎈🎉🥳🎉🎆🎇
So many memes,
So little time.
My guess is making babies with minors and then killing them...you know, cult sh t.
The national credit card and the taxpayers should NEVER fund abortion. Or homosexuality, transgenderism, elective sterilization, IVF or euthanasia.
There goes demoncRAT Billy Boy Gates and his plans for population control. Great move by our President.
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