Flashback: Biden admin repeatedly used USAID to push abortion in Africa

President Donald Trump's medication is facing scrutiny this week aft moving with billionaire Elon Musk to unopen down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an enactment Musk called a "viper's nest" of mismanaged funding.

Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) worked with the Trump medication to unopen down USAID connected Monday. While the agency's semipermanent aboriginal remains unclear, lawmakers and activists person repeatedly accused USAID of utilizing backing to leverage argumentation changes crossed the globe. Under President Joe Biden's administration, the enactment was often utilized to propulsion termination successful Africa, critics say.

Biden cleared way for planetary termination push

President Joe Biden cleared the way for planetary termination backing conscionable days aft helium entered bureau successful 2021. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Biden cleared the way for U.S. backing to travel toward pro-abortion groups crossed the globe conscionable days aft entering office. He signed an enforcement bid rescinding the Reagan-era "Mexico City Rule" connected Jan. 28, 2021.

The rule, archetypal rescinded by President Barack Obama and past reinstated during Trump's archetypal term, prevented overseas assistance from going to nongovernmental organizations that beforehand termination oregon supply termination services.

"These excessive conditions connected overseas and improvement assistance undermine the United States’ efforts to beforehand sex equality globally by restricting our quality to enactment women’s health," Biden said astatine the time.

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Biden's regularisation alteration cleared USAID to nonstop millions successful backing to assertive termination organizations similar Marie Stopes International (MSI). MSI said it relied connected USAID for 17% of its full donor income nether the Obama administration, adding that the deficiency of U.S. enactment created an $80-million "funding gap" implicit the last 3 years of Trump's term.

The radical said the countries astir heavy impacted by the deficiency of backing were Madagascar, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Biden accused of ‘hijacking’ AIDS programme to propulsion termination successful Africa

GOP Rep. Chris Smith spoke to Fox News Digital astir abortions being performed successful Africa astatine the taxpayers' expense. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., accused Biden successful 2023 of "hijacking" a palmy AIDS alleviation programme to propulsion an planetary termination agenda.

Smith's accusations centered connected PREPFAR, a backing programme wrong USAID that, astatine the time, had already allocated immoderate $100 cardinal toward warring AIDS crossed the world, redeeming 25 cardinal lives and preventing millions of infections.

Smith says 2 groups, Population Services International (PSI) and Village Reach, had received $96.5 cardinal and $10.1 million, respectively, from PEPFAR nether Biden, and some groups person a way grounds of pushing abortion.

"PSI proudly proclaims it provides termination and lobbies to destruct pro-life laws," Smith said astatine the time. "PSI provides broad termination and post-abortion attraction services successful astir 20 countries passim the world."

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Smith alleged Village Reach utilized PEPFAR funds "to beforehand termination successful Malawi and lobby for changes successful pro-life laws" and besides "helped Malawi found a government-funded hotline (that included providing accusation and referrals for ‘sexual and reproductive health,’ i.e., abortion)."

A 3rd group, Pathfinder International, received $5 cardinal successful PEPFAR backing from 2021 to 2023. Smith said the radical "lobbies to weaken oregon destruct pro-life laws successful nations astir the world" and is "explicit successful its promotion of termination successful different countries, stating it is "committed to expanding entree to … harmless abortion."

Biden admin accused of pushing lax termination laws successful Sierra Leone

Presidents Trump and Biden reversed 1 another's policies connected backing abortions abroad. (Getty Images)

Biden's medication was accused successful December of pressuring the authorities of Sierra Leone to follow much permissive termination policies successful speech for overseas assistance.

A study from the Daily Signal stated that The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government-run backing allocator, was threatening to withhold hundreds of millions successful overseas assistance backing if the federation didn't unbend its policies, a erstwhile elder U.S. authorities authoritative told the outlet.

The MCC CEO Alice Albright signed an statement with Sierra Leone's concern minister, Sheku Bangura, successful precocious September. The statement called for the state to person $480 cardinal successful overseas assistance truthful agelong arsenic it met the MCC's "rigorous standards for bully governance, warring corruption and respecting antiauthoritarian rights."

The enactment denied immoderate effort to power Sierra Leone's termination policies successful a connection to Fox News Digital successful December.

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"The Millennium Challenge Corporation is unaware of immoderate Sierra Leonean termination authorities and has ne'er made immoderate requests to the Government of Sierra Leone regarding termination policies. Any specified authorities would beryllium an interior substance for Sierra Leone with nary U.S. authorities developments money made contingent connected its passage," the enactment said successful a statement.

Footage circulating connected societal media showed raucous pro-life protesters demonstrating wrong Sierra Leone's parliament astatine the clip arsenic lawmakers debated authorities detailing much permissive termination rules.

Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.