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The bill prevents U.S. funds from supporting coercive population-control programs and abortion funding in Peace Corps activities, but at the cost of reduced reproductive-health services and research abroad, funding uncertainty for aid organizations, and some implementation costs for taxpayers.
Recipients of U.S. foreign assistance and U.S. taxpayers: the bill bars use of U.S. foreign assistance funds to support coercive population-control programs abroad.
Peace Corps volunteers and the Peace Corps program: Peace Corps funds are prohibited from being used to pay for abortions, aligning Peace Corps funding with existing statutory restrictions.
Women in countries receiving U.S. foreign assistance: may lose access to abortion-related services and related research funded by U.S. assistance, reducing available reproductive health care options.
Nonprofits and researchers working on family planning and global health: programs and research funded by U.S. foreign assistance may face reduced services or halted studies, limiting family-planning options and scientific knowledge.
Organizations that receive U.S. assistance (including NGOs and subnational partners): could face funding cuts or uncertainty based on Presidential determinations about supporting coercive programs, creating operational and planning risk.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Permanently prohibits use of U.S. foreign assistance and Peace Corps funds for abortion-related activities and involuntary sterilization, and bars funding to organizations the President finds support coercive programs.
Official title: Permanently enact certain appropriations Act restrictions on the use of funds for abortions and involuntary sterilizations, and for other purposes.
Introduced January 30, 2025 by James Risch · Last progress January 30, 2025
Prohibits use of U.S. foreign assistance and Peace Corps–authorized funds for abortion-related activities and involuntary sterilization. The bill rewrites the Foreign Assistance Act provision to bar funding for abortions as family planning, coercive or incentivized sterilization, related biomedical research, lobbying on abortion, and payments to organizations the President determines participate in coercive programs. It also adds a restriction to the Peace Corps Act preventing Peace Corps funds from paying for abortions, subject to an existing appropriations law reference.