3 pro-life policies implemented by Trump in first week of his second term

January 30, 2025

During his first week back in office, President Donald Trump has taken rapid action to reverse a number of pro-abortion policies implemented by his predecessor Joe Biden.

The Christian Post reports that the president’s actions on abortion policy took place last Friday during the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.

Here are three moves that the Trump administration has undertaken to make pro-life goals a part of official U.S. government policy.

One of the executive orders signed by Trump last Friday, re-established the Mexico City Policy which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund organizations that promote or provide abortion services overseas.

In a separate executive order, Trump reinstated the Hyde Amendment which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Both of these policies had been rescinded by the Biden administration.

President Trump also submitted a diplomatic note last Friday via the United States Mission to the United Nation, announcing that the U.S. is rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration which states that “there is no international right to abortion.”

According to the Christian Post, president Biden had withdrawn the U.S. from the Geneva Consensus Declaration upon taking office in 2021.

Finally, the chief of staff to the U.S. Attorney General released a memo that identified “prosecutions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act” as “prototypical” examples of the weaponization of the federal government.

Trump had promised to end the practice of prosecuting peaceful protestors who blocked entrances to abortion clinics, saying that unless aggravating factors were presented, most cases could be handled “under state or local law.”

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