US President <a href="https://www.wionews.com/tags/donald-trump" rel="dofollow">Donald Trump</a> on Friday (Jan 24) reinstated the &ldquo;Mexico City Rule,&rdquo; a long-standing Republican policy that bans US global health funding for foreign organisations involved in providing or promoting abortions. This move reverses key efforts by the erstwhile Joe Biden administration to expand access to abortion services.
Originally introduced during Republican president Ronald Reagan&rsquo;s administration, the Mexico City Rule has been repeatedly revoked by Democratic presidents and reinstated by Republican presidents. Trump had previously restored the policy at the start of his first term, but his predecessor Joe Biden overturned&nbsp;it during his time in office.
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<h2>Trump signs executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment</h2>
In yet another crackdown on abortions, Trump signed an executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment, which had banned federal funding for these procedures since 1977.&nbsp;
The order also reverses several actions implemented by the Biden administration to increase access to abortion services following the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 2022 decision to overturn&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/opinions/from-donald-trump-to-elon-musk-2024-was-the-year-the-toxic-male-rose-to-power-8575991">Roe v. Wade</a>.
Both orders were signed on the same day as the March for Life, an annual gathering of anti-abortion activists to mark the 52nd anniversary of the Supreme Court&rsquo;s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had established a nationwide right to abortion before being overturned. Trump addressed the rally through a video message, while Vice President JD Vance spoke in person.
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Just a day earlier, Trump issued pardons to around two dozen individuals convicted of blocking access to abortion clinics.
The Biden administration had taken a series of actions to expand abortion access and reproductive healthcare following the Supreme Court ruling. Democrats made abortion rights a central focus of their 2024 campaign strategy, warning of potential restrictions under Trump&rsquo;s leadership.
<h2>Trump&rsquo;s anti-abortion policies during his first term led to 108,000 deaths of women and children: Report</h2>
A 2022 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that Trump&rsquo;s earlier anti-abortion policies on foreign aid during his first term had led to an estimated 108,000 deaths of women and children in low-income countries. 
This was linked to funding cuts for organisations like MSI Reproductive Choices, which provides contraception and STI testing using US&nbsp;funds&nbsp;while offering abortion services through separate revenue streams.
MSI, which refused to comply with the reinstated policy, is expected to lose $14 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development. 
According to the organisation, this financial cutback could lead to the suspension of contraception services in several countries, potentially resulting in an additional 2.4 million unintended pregnancies.
(With inputs from agencies)

World: US abortion Mexico City Rule - Donald Trump signed an executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment, which has banned federal funding for abortions since 1977.

US President Donald Trump on Friday (Jan 24) reinstated the “Mexico City Rule,” a long-standing Republican policy that bans US global health funding for foreign organisations involved in providing or promoting abortions. This move reverses key efforts by the erstwhile Joe Biden administration to expand access to abortion services. Originally introduced during Republican president Ronald Reagan’s administration, the Mexico City Rule has been repeatedly revoked by Democratic presidents and reinstated by Republican presidents. Trump had previously restored the policy at the start of his first term, but his predecessor Joe Biden overturned it during his time in office. Also read: Trump administration directs agencies to start firing DEI staffs Trump signs executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment In yet another crackdown on abortions, Trump signed an executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment, which had banned federal funding for these procedures since 1977. The order also reverses several actions implemented by the Biden administration to increase access to abortion services following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Both orders were signed on the same day as the March for Life, an annual gathering of anti-abortion activists to mark the 52nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which had established a nationwide right to abortion before being overturned. Trump addressed the rally through a video message, while Vice President JD Vance spoke in person. Also read: Who is Pete Hegseth? Ex-Fox News anchor turned US Secretary of Defense Just a day earlier, Trump issued pardons to around two dozen individuals convicted of blocking access to abortion clinics. The Biden administration had taken a series of actions to expand abortion access and reproductive healthcare following the Supreme Court ruling. Democrats made abortion rights a central focus of their 2024 campaign strategy, warning of potential restrictions under Trump’s leadership. Trump’s anti-abortion policies during his first term led to 108,000 deaths of women and children: Report A 2022 study by the National Academy of Sciences found that Trump’s earlier anti-abortion policies on foreign aid during his first term had led to an estimated 108,000 deaths of women and children in low-income countries. This was linked to funding cuts for organisations like MSI Reproductive Choices, which provides contraception and STI testing using US funds while offering abortion services through separate revenue streams. MSI, which refused to comply with the reinstated policy, is expected to lose $14 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development. According to the organisation, this financial cutback could lead to the suspension of contraception services in several countries, potentially resulting in an additional 2.4 million unintended pregnancies. (With inputs from agencies)

US anti-abortion crackdown: President Trump reinstates 'Mexico City Rule,' slashes abortion aid globally

Signing a second executive order aimed at protecting abortion rights, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women.

Asking the federal health department to consider allowing Medicaid funds to be used to help facilitate out-of-state travel for abortions, the order is meant to address the recent Supreme Court decision to ban abortion across the US.

As Republicans in US states push a wave of laws restricting abortion the executive order is expected to have a limited impact.

Ahead of November's midterm elections, voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas.

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Since the Supreme Court's decision to rescind the 1973 Roe v. Wade verdict that made abortion legal throughout the country, this was the first major test of voter sentiment.

With an unusually heavy turnout, a bid to remove abortion rights from the Kansas constitution was rejected by 59 to 41 percent despite being a Republican stronghold.

Calling on voters to keep up the momentum into the midterms, Planned Parenthood said the Kansas vote "a clear warning to anti-abortion politicians."

Democrats are forecast to lose at least the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate in the November midterms due to soaring inflation and widespread pessimism in the messy aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The midterms are shaping up as rough for Democrats, who even now only control the legislature by a few votes, as it will decide which party controls Congress for the last two years of Biden's first term.

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Signing a second executive order aimed at protecting abortion rights, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women.

Signing a second executive order aimed at protecting abortion rights, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women. Asking the federal health department to consider allowing Medicaid funds to be used to help facilitate out-of-state travel for abortions, the order is meant to address the recent Supreme Court decision to ban abortion across the US. As Republicans in US states push a wave of laws restricting abortion the executive order is expected to have a limited impact. Ahead of November's midterm elections, voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas. × Since the Supreme Court's decision to rescind the 1973 Roe v. Wade verdict that made abortion legal throughout the country, this was the first major test of voter sentiment. With an unusually heavy turnout, a bid to remove abortion rights from the Kansas constitution was rejected by 59 to 41 percent despite being a Republican stronghold. Calling on voters to keep up the momentum into the midterms, Planned Parenthood said the Kansas vote "a clear warning to anti-abortion politicians." Democrats are forecast to lose at least the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate in the November midterms due to soaring inflation and widespread pessimism in the messy aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. The midterms are shaping up as rough for Democrats, who even now only control the legislature by a few votes, as it will decide which party controls Congress for the last two years of Biden's first term. (With inputs from agencies) Watch WION's live TV here: ×

'Republicans are clueless about the power of American women': Biden signs second abortion order

Abortion: How things stand in US as court prepares to rule

The US&nbsp;Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi's bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. 
 
By hearing the case in their next term, which starts in October and ends in June 2022, the justices will look at whether to overturn a central part of the landmark ruling, a longstanding goal of religious conservatives. 
 
The ruling, expected next year, could allow states to ban the procedure before the fetus is viable outside the womb, upending decades of legal precedent. 
 
In the Roe v. Wade decision, subsequently reaffirmed in 1992, the court said that states could not ban abortion before the viability of the fetus outside the womb, which is generally viewed by doctors as between 24 and 28 weeks. The Mississippi law would ban abortion much earlier than that. Other states have backed laws that would ban the procedure even earlier. 
 
"Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights. The Supreme Court just agreed to review an abortion ban that unquestionably violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a test case to overturn Roe v. Wade," said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is among those challenging the law. 
 
The office of Mississippi`s attorney general did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
The Roe v. Wade ruling recognised that a constitutional right to personal privacy protects a woman`s ability to obtain an abortion. The court in its 1992 decision, coming in the case Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, reaffirmed the ruling and prohibited laws that place an "undue burden" on a woman`s ability to obtain an abortion. 
 
A CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY 
 
Abortion opponents are hopeful that the Supreme Court will narrow or overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. The court moved from a 5-4 to a 6-3 conservative majority following Senate confirmation last year of Republican former President Donald Trump`s third appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett. 
 
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 June 2020 ruling struck down an abortion law in Louisiana that imposed restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure. The late liberal Justice Ruth Bader was still on the court at the time, and conservative Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the court`s liberal wing in the ruling. Roberts at the time, however, made it clear that he voted the way he did because he felt bound by the court`s 2016 ruling that struck down a similar law in Texas. 
 
The 2018 Mississippi law, like others similar to it passed by Republican-led states, was enacted with full knowledge that was a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. 
 
After the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women`s Health Organization, sued to try to block the measure, a federal judge in 2018 ruled against the state. The New Orleans-based 5th US&nbsp;Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 reached the same conclusion, prompting the state to appeal to the Supreme Court. 
 
"States may regulate abortion procedures prior to viability so long as they do not impose an undue burden on the woman`s right, but they may not ban abortions. The law at issue is a ban," 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote. 
 
Abortion remains a divisive issue in the United States, as in many countries. Christian conservatives are among those most opposed to it. Abortion rates in the United States have steadily declined since the early 1980s, reaching the lowest levels on record in recent years, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute. 
 
The June 2020 ruling in the Louisiana case marked the court`s first major abortion decision since Trump appointed Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Neil Gorsuch in 2017 as justices. Both voted in favor of Louisiana`s restrictions. If Barrett were to vote on similar lines, conservatives could have a majority to curb abortion rights regardless of how Roberts votes. Trump had promised during the 2016 presidential race to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. 
 
The Mississippi appeal had been pending at the court since June 2020 without the justices taking action on whether or not to hear it. During that time, Ginsburg died and was replaced by Barrett and Trump lost his re-election bid, to be replaced by Democratic President Joe Biden, who supports abortion rights. 
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The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi's bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi's bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. By hearing the case in their next term, which starts in October and ends in June 2022, the justices will look at whether to overturn a central part of the landmark ruling, a longstanding goal of religious conservatives. The ruling, expected next year, could allow states to ban the procedure before the fetus is viable outside the womb, upending decades of legal precedent. In the Roe v. Wade decision, subsequently reaffirmed in 1992, the court said that states could not ban abortion before the viability of the fetus outside the womb, which is generally viewed by doctors as between 24 and 28 weeks. The Mississippi law would ban abortion much earlier than that. Other states have backed laws that would ban the procedure even earlier. "Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights. The Supreme Court just agreed to review an abortion ban that unquestionably violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a test case to overturn Roe v. Wade," said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is among those challenging the law. The office of Mississippi`s attorney general did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Roe v. Wade ruling recognised that a constitutional right to personal privacy protects a woman`s ability to obtain an abortion. The court in its 1992 decision, coming in the case Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, reaffirmed the ruling and prohibited laws that place an "undue burden" on a woman`s ability to obtain an abortion. A CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY Abortion opponents are hopeful that the Supreme Court will narrow or overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. The court moved from a 5-4 to a 6-3 conservative majority following Senate confirmation last year of Republican former President Donald Trump`s third appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The Supreme Court in a 5-4 June 2020 ruling struck down an abortion law in Louisiana that imposed restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure. The late liberal Justice Ruth Bader was still on the court at the time, and conservative Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the court`s liberal wing in the ruling. Roberts at the time, however, made it clear that he voted the way he did because he felt bound by the court`s 2016 ruling that struck down a similar law in Texas. The 2018 Mississippi law, like others similar to it passed by Republican-led states, was enacted with full knowledge that was a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. After the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women`s Health Organization, sued to try to block the measure, a federal judge in 2018 ruled against the state. The New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 reached the same conclusion, prompting the state to appeal to the Supreme Court. "States may regulate abortion procedures prior to viability so long as they do not impose an undue burden on the woman`s right, but they may not ban abortions. The law at issue is a ban," 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote. Abortion remains a divisive issue in the United States, as in many countries. Christian conservatives are among those most opposed to it. Abortion rates in the United States have steadily declined since the early 1980s, reaching the lowest levels on record in recent years, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute. The June 2020 ruling in the Louisiana case marked the court`s first major abortion decision since Trump appointed Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Neil Gorsuch in 2017 as justices. Both voted in favor of Louisiana`s restrictions. If Barrett were to vote on similar lines, conservatives could have a majority to curb abortion rights regardless of how Roberts votes. Trump had promised during the 2016 presidential race to appoint justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. The Mississippi appeal had been pending at the court since June 2020 without the justices taking action on whether or not to hear it. During that time, Ginsburg died and was replaced by Barrett and Trump lost his re-election bid, to be replaced by Democratic President Joe Biden, who supports abortion rights.

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