The Trump administration also moved to further tighten restrictions, reaching other areas of U.S. programs, and potentially encompassed $7.3 billion in FY 2020 alone, to the extent that such funding was ultimately provided to foreign NGOs, directly or indirectly (family planning assistance accounted for approximately $600 million of that total).

Under the Trump administration’s expansion, the policy applied to PEPFAR, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition, and other U.S.President Trump reinstated the policy but also significantly expanded it to encompass the vast majority of U.S. government global family planning funding. Historically, the policy required foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to certify that they would not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source (including non-U.S.First announced in 1984 by the Reagan administration, the policy has been rescinded and reinstated by subsequent administrations along party lines and has been in effect for 21 of the past 36 years.On January 28, 2021, President Joe Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy, marking an end to a four-year period under the Trump administration that saw the greatest expansion of the policy in its history.

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