Rep. Chris Smith enthusiastically welcomed President Donald Trump’s new executive order re-implementing his precedent-setting Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) Policy.
“Without this protection in place, NGOs receiving U.S. government funds promote and perform abortion throughout the world with massive subsidies from the United States, said Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Co-Chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. “By redirecting taxpayer dollars away from the abortion industry, President Trump has re-instituted a life-affirming protection consistent with the political consensus that taxpayer dollars should not fund abortion and the abortion industry.”
President Trump’s executive order restores the policy reversed by abortion-President Joe Biden, who forced taxpayers to fund organizations that promote, lobby or perform abortion on demand in foreign countries.
“This powerful executive order ends abortion-President Joe Biden’s work to hijack global health funding to promote abortion on demand around the world,” said Smith. “This includes the funding available through President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) where, last week it was revealed that Biden broke U.S. law to pay for abortions in Africa—a tip of the iceberg of the Biden-Harris anti-child activism at home and abroad.
“The American public overwhelmingly opposes using tax dollars to pay for abortion and/or subsidize the abortion industry. The 2025 Marist poll released yesterday shows an overwhelming 73% of Americans ‘oppose using tax dollars to support abortion in other countries,’” Smith said.
“Through PLGHA, President Trump demonstrates again that U.S. foreign policy can consistently provide compassionate, tangible assistance to women and children and rejects the grisly business of abortion. Under President Trump, the United States will now once again work with organizations that share pro-life, pro-health principles instead of groups that place their abortion agenda ahead of true health care,” Smith said.
