6. Department of State · Notable
Stop promoting abortion and pro-LGBT initiatives in Africa policy
Printed page 187 6. Department of State
“African nations are particularly (and reasonably) non-receptive to the U.S. social policies such as abortion and pro-LGBT initiatives being imposed on them. The United States should focus on core security, economic, and human rights engagement with African partners and reject the promotion of divisive policies that hurt the deepening of shared goals between the U.S. and its African partners.”
What has happened
- Done
State issued the Promoting Human Flourishing in Foreign Assistance award terms as final rules effective 2026-02-26: Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance extends the Mexico City Policy beyond global health to all Department foreign assistance and to foreign governments, parastatals and public international organizations, and Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign Assistance bars recipients from promoting gender ideology. Both apply to every African recipient. The Bureau of African Affairs states the diplomatic corollary: engagement "respects sovereignty, uses quiet leverage on values-based issues, avoids public moralizing and virtue signaling", and rejects "spreading divisive ideology".
- Partially done
The President reinstated the Mexico City Policy, barring foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning from receiving U.S. global health assistance. This covers the abortion half of the Quote for one class of assistance.
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Every source this Status rests on is allowlisted and was read in full; none of it was off the allowlist or unreadable.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- U.S. promotion of abortion and pro-LGBT initiatives in Africa
- ID
- 502