Official Summaries

Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act

This bill prohibits the provision of funding for purposes outside the United States to certain foreign or domestic organizations that perform or promote abortions, furnish or develop items intended to procure abortions, or provide financial support for an entity that conducts such activities.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 250 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 250

    To restrict the availability of Federal funds to organizations 
                 associated with the abortion industry.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2025

   Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Budd, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
   Cramer, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Banks, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Mr. 
   Cornyn, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Young, and Mr. Johnson) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                     Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Life in Foreign 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) In 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued the Mexico City 
        Policy, which prohibits foreign nongovernmental associations 
        from performing or promoting abortions as a condition of 
        receiving United States family planning assistance.
            (2) In 1993, President Bill Clinton rescinded the Mexico 
        City Policy.
            (3) In 2001, President George W. Bush reinstated the Mexico 
        City Policy.
            (4) In 2009, President Barack Obama rescinded the Mexico 
        City Policy.
            (5) In 2017, President Donald Trump reinstated the Mexico 
        City Policy upon taking office, renamed it Protecting Life in 
        Global Health Assistance, and expanded it to cover all United 
        States global health assistance funds granted to foreign 
        nongovernmental organizations.
            (6) In 2021, President Joe Biden rescinded the Protecting 
        Life in Global Health Assistance Policy.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that:--
            (1) the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy 
        should be expanded to cover funding to foreign and domestic 
        nongovernmental organizations, multilateral organizations, and 
        subcontractors; and
            (2) Congress should codify this policy to prevent further 
        inconsistency between presidential administrations.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
Federal funds may not be made available for purposes outside of the 
United States (including its territories and possessions) to--
            (1) any foreign nonprofit organization, foreign 
        nongovernmental organization, foreign multilateral 
        organization, or foreign quasi-autonomous nongovernmental 
        organization that--
                    (A) performs or promotes abortions, including 
                providing referrals, counseling, lobbying, and training 
                relating to abortions;
                    (B) furnishes or develops any item intended to 
                procure abortions; or
                    (C) provides financial support to--
                            (i) any entity that conducts any of the 
                        activities described in subparagraph (A) or 
                        (B); or
                            (ii) any entity described in paragraph (2); 
                        or
            (2) any domestic nonprofit organization or domestic 
        nongovernmental organization that--
                    (A) performs abortions;
                    (B) furnishes or develops any item intended to 
                procure abortions;
                    (C) within the scope of any program or activity 
                that receives Federal funds--
                            (i) performs or promotes abortions, 
                        including providing referrals, counseling, 
                        lobbying, and training relating to abortions; 
                        or
                            (ii) fails to maintain a complete physical 
                        and financial separation from activities 
                        described in clause (i) and such failure 
                        includes co-locating such a program or activity 
                        at any site where activities described in 
                        clause (i) are conducted; or
                    (D) provides financial support to--
                            (i) any entity that conducts activities 
                        described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C); or
                            (ii) any entity described in paragraph (1).
    (b) Inclusions.--The prohibitions described in subsection (a) 
include the transfer of Federal funds and goods financed with such 
funds.
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