Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act applies a broad abortion-related funding restriction to federal funds used outside the United States and its territories. Foreign nonprofit, nongovernmental, multilateral, and quasi-autonomous organizations are ineligible if they perform or promote abortions, provide referrals, counseling, lobbying, or training related to abortions, furnish or develop abortion-related items, or financially support entities that do so. Domestic nonprofits and NGOs also face restrictions if they perform abortions, furnish abortion-related items, conduct abortion promotion within a federally funded program, or fail to maintain complete physical and financial separation from abortion activities. The bill turns abortion restrictions into a condition for foreign assistance funding.
Who Benefits and How
Anti-abortion advocacy organizations benefit because federal foreign-assistance dollars are barred from organizations connected to abortion services or advocacy. Taxpayers opposed to abortion benefit because their federal funds cannot support covered foreign abortion-related activities. Foreign pro-life health organizations benefit competitively if abortion-connected organizations lose eligibility for U.S. assistance. Grant compliance auditors benefit from a statutory checklist for abortion-related funding restrictions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
International health NGOs lose eligibility for U.S. funds if they provide abortion services, referrals, counseling, lobbying, training, or financial support. Domestic NGOs receiving foreign-assistance funds must maintain complete physical and financial separation from abortion activities. USAID and State Department grant offices must screen recipients and subrecipients for covered abortion-related activity. Patients seeking reproductive health services abroad may face reduced access where U.S.-funded providers drop abortion-related care or counseling.
Key Provisions
- Restricts federal funds for foreign organizations that perform or promote abortions.
- Restricts federal funds for abortion referrals, counseling, lobbying, training, and abortion-related items.
- Requires domestic NGOs to separate federally funded programs from abortion-related activities.
- Extends restrictions to financial support for entities that conduct covered abortion-related activities.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Bars federal foreign-assistance funds for foreign or domestic organizations that perform, promote, finance, refer for, counsel on, lobby for, train on, or supply items intended for abortions outside the United States.
Key Policy Areas
Foreign Assistance, Abortion Policy, Federal Grants
Primary Purpose
Bars federal foreign-assistance funds for foreign or domestic organizations that perform, promote, finance, refer for, counsel on, lobby for, train on, or supply items intended for abortions outside the United States.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- Anti-abortion advocacy organizations
- Anti-abortion taxpayers
- Foreign pro-life health organizations
- Grant compliance auditors
Identified Costs
- International health NGOs
- Domestic NGOs
- USAID grant offices
- Reproductive health patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Foxx (for herself, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Smith …
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Foreign pro-life health organizations, International health NGOs, Reproductive health patients
Positive-direction: Foreign pro-life health organizations
Negative-direction: International health NGOs, Reproductive health patients
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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