The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release, dated last night (January 20, 2025)…
LEAGUE HAILS TRUMP WITHDRAWAL
FROM PRO-ABORTION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
At 8:25 this evening, 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 in FY 2022.
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 made the following comment:
“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 National 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 which promoted abortion—the United Nations Fund For Population Activities, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Catholic Action League is calling upon President Trump to restore the pro-life policies of his first term, and complete the emancipation of American taxpayers from fiscal vassalage to the UN’s population control agenda, by promptly leaving both UNFPA and UNESCO.”
In other late breaking news, it has been announced that President Trump will pardon a pro-life prisoner of conscience, Bevelyn Williams, who was prosecuted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, and sentenced to three years in federal prison for a peaceful act of civil obedience at an abortion facility.
