Trump signs executive orders targeting abortions
Diana Ramirez-Simon
While aboard Air Force One en route to tour the devastation from the wildfires in Los Angeles, Donald Trump signed two executive orders targeting abortions.
The first would reinstate the Mexico City policy, which prevents international non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions from receiving federal funding. This policy, which abortion rights supporters call the “global gag rule”, dates back to the 1980s and is typically implemented whenever Republicans take control of the White House.
The second was an order affirming a longstanding federal policy that the US does not use federal funds to pay for abortions.
The actions come just after he addressed a crowd of thousands of abortion opponents in Washington on Friday to mark the 52nd anniversary of the supreme court’s 1973 decision in Roe v Wade. The decision created a national right to abortion but was overturned by the court in 2022.
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