WASHINGTON – On Friday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in introducing the Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act. This legislation would ensure that our foreign aid is not funding or promoting abortions overseas. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan first instituted the Mexico City Policy, prohibiting the availability of family planning foreign assistance funds to organizations that provide or promote abortions or advocate to change abortion laws in a foreign country. Since then, the policy has been alternately rescinded and reinstated by new Democratic and Republican administrations respectively. 

Sens. Johnson and Lee were joined by Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Rand Paul (R-Ky.).

Full text of the legislation can be found here.

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