Biden to Reverse Trump’s Policy Blocking Funding for Foreign NGOs That Perform, Promote Abortions

Biden to Reverse Trump’s Policy Blocking Funding for Foreign NGOs That Perform, Promote Abortions
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden will roll back a Trump administration policy that bans taxpayers’ dollars from going to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO) that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday.

“It will be our policy to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in the United States, as well as globally,” Fauci, who is the newly appointed chief medical adviser to the president, said in remarks to the World Health Organization.