Trump “Global Gag Rule” as to Abortion Likely Doesn’t Violate the First Amendment
Friday, President Trump reinstated his 2017 reinstatement of the 2001 President G.W. Bush reinstatement of President Reagan’s “Mexico City Policy” (also called by some the “Global Gag Rule”) which provides, in relevant part:
The Mexico City Policy announced by President Reagan in 1984 required foreign nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds for family planning activities that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations. This policy was in effect until it was rescinded on January 22, 1993.
It is my conviction that taxpayer funds appropriated pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act should not be given to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations….
The policy restricts the foreign grantees’ speech (actively promoting abortion, which includes public advocacy and lobbying of foreign governments) as well as their conduct. Does this violate the First Am
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