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Press for abortion language to be removed from UN documents

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 9, p. 266. Written by Max Primorac.

Press for abortion language to be removed from UN documents

The document says “should”Who acts: USAID, State DepartmentHow: internal managementp. 266 in the PDF
What the document says

“assurances that language promoting abortion will be removed from U.N. documents, policy statements, and technical literature”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 266

The chapter asks that a political appointee coordinate cross-agency efforts to hold United Nations and World Health Organization agencies to a higher standard of financial and programmatic accountability, and includes this among the assurances sought. It also asks for more prominent American representation on international technical and regulation-setting committees.

What the document actually says

“assurances that language promoting abortion will be removed from U.N. documents, policy statements, and technical literature”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 266
That sentence, in plain words

Ask them to take language that supports abortion out of their papers.

What this is about

The United States pays into United Nations bodies. Their papers mention abortion. The book says that language should be taken out.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The State Department rule Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance, effective February 26, 2026, adds an award term imposing abortion related requirements on recipients including public international organizations, so it does reach United Nations bodies that take American money. What it does is condition funding. The proposal asks for assurances that language promoting abortion be removed from United Nations documents, policy statements and technical literature, and no indexed document seeks changes to what those bodies publish or presses for American representation on their technical committees. 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. 266.
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    “Press for abortion language to be removed from UN documents,” Project 2025, chapter 9, p. 266. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch09-remove-abortion-language-from-un/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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