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US President Donald Trump has pardoned a number of abortion opponents who were prosecuted for related offenses. There are 23 people, the Republican explained at the signing ceremony in the White House. He claimed: “They should never have been prosecuted. It is my great honor to sign this.” Trump later said that detainees would soon be released.

According to US media reports, these include several activists who were convicted in 2020 for blocking an abortion clinic in the capital Washington. In the USA it is expressly forbidden to deny women access to clinics or to threaten them while doing so. Radical opponents of abortion argued that in this way they were simply exercising their right to freedom of expression. The case of a loud case attracted particular attention New York Times now pardoned activist who was sentenced to almost five years in prison last year as the person largely responsible for the protest.

Reagan’s anti-abortion policies are reinstated

Trump also issued a decree that abortions could no longer be financed by US taxpayers’ money and reintroduced the so-called Mexico City Policy, which was founded in 1984 by then Republican President Ronald Reagan. Accordingly, government funding should be cut from all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that offer information and services on abortion abroad. This is likely to hit work in developing countries particularly hard.

The State Department also announced that the USA would renew its membership in the so-called Geneva Consensus Declaration. This international treaty emphasizes that there is no right to abortion and, according to critics, aims to restrict access to abortion for millions of women and girls worldwide. It was launched at the end of 2020 by the USA, Brazil, Uganda, Egypt, Hungary and Indonesia.