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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 250
To restrict the availability of Federal funds to organizations associated with
the abortion industry.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY24, 2025
Mr. L
EE(for himself, Mr. BUDD, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr.
C
RAMER, Mr. RICKETTS, Mr. BANKS, Mr. SCOTTof South Carolina, Mr.
C
ORNYN, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. TUBERVILLE, Mr. YOUNG, and Mr. JOHN-
SON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations
A BILL
To restrict the availability of Federal funds to organizations
associated with the abortion industry.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Life in For-4
eign Assistance Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 6
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-7
ings: 8
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(1) In 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued 1
the Mexico City Policy, which prohibits foreign non-2
governmental associations from performing or pro-3
moting abortions as a condition of receiving United 4
States family planning assistance. 5
(2) In 1993, President Bill Clinton rescinded 6
the Mexico City Policy. 7
(3) In 2001, President George W. Bush rein-8
stated the Mexico City Policy. 9
(4) In 2009, President Barack Obama re-10
scinded the Mexico City Policy. 11
(5) In 2017, President Donald Trump rein-12
stated the Mexico City Policy upon taking office, re-13
named it Protecting Life in Global Health Assist-14
ance, and expanded it to cover all United States 15
global health assistance funds granted to foreign 16
nongovernmental organizations. 17
(6) In 2021, President Joe Biden rescinded the 18
Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy. 19
(b) S
ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-20
gress that:— 21
(1) the Protecting Life in Global Health Assist-22
ance Policy should be expanded to cover funding to 23
foreign and domestic nongovernmental organiza-24
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tions, multilateral organizations, and subcontractors; 1
and 2
(2) Congress should codify this policy to pre-3
vent further inconsistency between presidential ad-4
ministrations. 5
SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL 6
FUNDS. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-8
sion of law, Federal funds may not be made available for 9
purposes outside of the United States (including its terri-10
tories and possessions) to— 11
(1) any foreign nonprofit organization, foreign 12
nongovernmental organization, foreign multilateral 13
organization, or foreign quasi-autonomous non-14
governmental organization that— 15
(A) performs or promotes abortions, in-16
cluding providing referrals, counseling, lob-17
bying, and training relating to abortions; 18
(B) furnishes or develops any item in-19
tended to procure abortions; or 20
(C) provides financial support to— 21
(i) any entity that conducts any of the 22
activities described in subparagraph (A) or 23
(B); or 24
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(ii) any entity described in paragraph 1
(2); or 2
(2) any domestic nonprofit organization or do-3
mestic nongovernmental organization that— 4
(A) performs abortions; 5
(B) furnishes or develops any item in-6
tended to procure abortions; 7
(C) within the scope of any program or ac-8
tivity that receives Federal funds— 9
(i) performs or promotes abortions, 10
including providing referrals, counseling, 11
lobbying, and training relating to abor-12
tions; or 13
(ii) fails to maintain a complete phys-14
ical and financial separation from activities 15
described in clause (i) and such failure in-16
cludes co-locating such a program or activ-17
ity at any site where activities described in 18
clause (i) are conducted; or 19
(D) provides financial support to— 20
(i) any entity that conducts activities 21
described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); 22
or 23
(ii) any entity described in paragraph 24
(1). 25
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(b) INCLUSIONS.—The prohibitions described in sub-1
section (a) include the transfer of Federal funds and goods 2
financed with such funds. 3
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