Treat abortion and euthanasia as outside the definition of health care
What the document says“Abortion and euthanasia are not health care.”
The chapter says the Secretary must ensure that all department programs and activities are rooted in respect for innocent human life from day one until natural death, and frames this as the first of five goals for the department. Much of the rest of the chapter follows from it.
What the document actually says“Abortion and euthanasia are not health care.”
The book says abortion and euthanasia are not health care.
This is the book's starting point for this chapter. It says abortion and ending life should not count as health care. Many of its other ideas follow from that.
Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
2025-01-24 · 90 FR 8751
EO 14182 sets a policy of ending the use of federal money to fund or promote elective abortion and revokes the two 2022 orders on abortion access. It acts on funding rather than on how health care is defined, it directs OMB guidance rather than reorienting HHS programs around the goal, and it does not mention euthanasia, which is half of what the passage asks.
The order sets a policy of ending federal money for elective abortion. It also pulls two orders from 2022. It acts on money, not on how care is defined. It calls for budget guidance, not new health programs. And it says nothing about euthanasia, which is half of what the book asks.
3 agency rules
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.