This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Joe Biden's radical abortion agenda has taken a huge hit from the news administration of President Donald Trump, who has restored the Hyde Amendment that disallows using tax dollars for elective abortions domestically, and the Mexico City Policy, that bars federal funding for international groups that abort the unborn.
Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, whose legal organization often has fought on behalf of the unborn, said, "Through these pro-life executive actions, President Trump is protecting the most vulnerable and returning the federal government to the side of pro-life. American taxpayer dollars should never be used to murder innocent life."
A fact sheet posted online by the White House explains, Trump's executive order is "to end the use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.
It recognizes that, "for nearly five decades, Congress has enacted the Hyde Amendment and a series of additional laws to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortion. Contrary to this longstanding commonsense policy, the previous administration embedded federal funding of elective abortion in a wide variety of government programs."
The White House announcement said Trump reversed two of Biden's orders that violated the Hyde Amendment, his "whole-of-government" scheme to promote abortion and politicize the FACE Act, and an order by Biden arbitrarily declaring that elective abortion is "healthcare."
The Mexico City Policy provides similar protections for American taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortion internationally.
Trump's actions previously also cut funding for the United Nations Population Fund, which advocates for coercive abortion and forced sterilizations, stopped federal fetal tissue research and provided protections for healthcare entities and individuals' conscience rights.
The Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976, is an annual legislative provision included in federal spending bills to prevent American taxpayer dollars from directly funding abortions except in the rare cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother's life, Liberty Counsel explained.
It cited a 2016 report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute that estimated the amendment had saved more than two million lives by its 40th anniversary.
