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Implement the Geneva Consensus Declaration

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 9, p. 260. Written by Max Primorac.

Implement the Geneva Consensus Declaration

The document says “should”Who acts: USAIDHow: internal managementp. 260 in the PDF
What the document says

“Office of Women, Children, and Families should implement the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Protection of the Family”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 260

The Geneva Consensus Declaration is a non-binding statement signed by a group of countries in 2020 asserting there is no international right to abortion and affirming the family as the natural unit of society. The chapter asks that the agency implement it and prioritize partnerships with local organizations including faith-based ones, and that the agency's goal be to protect all members of society from conception to natural death.

What the document actually says

“Office of Women, Children, and Families should implement the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Women’s Health and Protection of the Family”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 260
That sentence, in plain words

This office should carry out a deal signed in 2020. It is named after the city of Geneva.

What this is about

Some countries signed a statement in 2020. It says there is no world right to abortion. It also backs the family. The book says this office should follow it.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14182, signed January 24, 2025, revokes two 2022 executive orders and directs the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance on ending federal funding of elective abortion. It works on domestic federal programs and never mentions the Geneva Consensus Declaration. No indexed document adopts or implements the declaration, and none addresses the Office of Women, Children, and Families or partnerships with local faith based organizations. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 260.
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    “Implement the Geneva Consensus Declaration,” Project 2025, chapter 9, p. 260. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch09-geneva-consensus-declaration/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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