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ROSLINDALE, Mass. - At 8:25 p.m. on Monday, less than nine hours after his inauguration, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order withdrawing the United States from the abortion-promoting United Nations agency, the World Health Organization.
WHO lists abortion among "essential healthcare services," characterizes laws which prohibit or restrict abortion as discriminatory human rights violations, and calls for the expansion of abortion through changes in national laws. The agency also promotes abortifacient contraception.
In July of 2020, in his first Administration, Donald Trump, announced the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, only to have his decision reversed by the Biden Administration in January of 2021.
Under Joe Biden, the United States became the largest single funding source for WHO, contributing $816 million to the organization ni FY2022.
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts hailed President Trump's Executive Order, calling it "a victory for the right to life, a defeat for the transnational abortion industry, and a vindication of the conscience rights of pro-life American taxpayers, who have been forced, against their sincerely held moral and religious beliefs, to subsidize the UN promoted expansion of abortion in the Third World."
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle hailed Trump's decision.
"President Trump's day one Executive Order sends a reassuring message to supporters of the right to life, who have been justly apprehensive about the direction of a second Trump Administration, since the removal of explicit pro-life language from the Republican Natonal Platform last July, and the President's assertion, in April of 2024, that abortion is now a state issue.
In his first Administration, President Trump also withdrew from and defunded two other UN agencies that promoted abortion; the United Ntons Fund for Population Activities and the United Nations educational scientific and Cultural Organization.
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