As thousands marched in Washington, D.C., for the protection of unborn life last Friday, the Trump administration delivered two significant wins for the pro-life cause internationally. The U.S. mission to the United Nations announced that the United States was rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a coalition of now 40 countries, and thereby rejecting the assumption of a “human right” to abortion. Next, Trump reinstated by executive order an expanded version of the Mexico City policy, a mainstay of every Republican administration since 1984, which prohibits international nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortion from receiving federal funding.
These efforts kick off the enormous task of realigning U.S. foreign policy on abortion with the truth that all innocent life is worthy of protection. Although not without hurdles, America has taken enormous strides to protect unborn life since the end of Roe v. Wade. We have rejected unfettered access to abortion as the law of our land. It follows that we should reject the lie of a “human right” to abortion in our foreign engagement. Further, we must never wield American might and money to promote ideological colonization by dismantling protections for unborn life in other countries.
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