Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance

What the Rule Says It Does

To implement the Presidential Memorandum of January 24, 2025, reinstating the Mexico City Policy in support of the foreign policy objective of the United States not to support abortion as a method of family planning overseas directly or indirectly, the U.S. Department of State (Department) is adding a new award term for grants, cooperative agreements, and voluntary contributions entitled "Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance." The award term imposes certain abortion-related requirements on foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), United States NGOs, public international organizations, foreign governments, and parastatals. The award term is issued consistent with authorities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) and other foreign assistance authorities, such as the FREEDOM Support Act, the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and the SEED Act of 1989, which authorize the Department to provide foreign assistance on such terms and conditions as the President, and by delegation, the Secretary of State, may determine. Consistent with past Mexico City Policy protocol, the provision will be incorporated as applicable into grants and cooperative agreements when new funds are added as well as into new awards.

This is the rule's own summary, as the Federal Register prints it.

The Orders It Names

• Executive Order 14150: America First Policy Directive to the Secretary of State
• Executive Order 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
• Executive Order 14168: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government
• Executive Order 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
• Executive Order 14182: Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
• Executive Order 14190: Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling

The rule names these orders itself. What it does about them is a reading, and none is recorded here.