President Donald Trump issued a memo Friday evening that would reinstate two global family planning policies and rescinded two Biden administration memos — his first major foray into regulating reproductive health after deemphasizing the issue on the campaign trail last year.
The memo would instruct the Health and Human Services and State departments to reinstate funding restrictions to the United Nations Population Fund, known as UNFPA, and to foreign non-governmental organizations that perform, refer for or provide counseling for abortion abroad.
The instructions fall in line with policies implemented during every Republican presidency since Ronald Reagan. Under Democratic administrations, the funding is reinstated.
