In First Year, Biden Spreads Pain and Suffering Around the World

By | January 20, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. January 20 (C-Fam) In his first 12 months in office, President Joe Biden has shown himself to be more aggressive on international social policy than either Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.

He started immediately upon taking office by rescinding the U.S. ban on funding foreign groups that promote abortion, known as the Mexico City Policy, which Donald Trump had expanded to cover all global health aid.

Biden also withdrew the U.S. from the Geneva Consensus Declaration, in which over 30 countries reaffirmed their commitment to improving global women’s health while insisting that such efforts did not include abortion, which is not a human right.

Biden dissolved the Commission on Unalienable Rights, which Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had convened to explore the ways in which the concept of human rights has been politicized and distorted.

He replaced Trump’s gender strategy with one that promotes abortion and LGBTQ rights.

Biden fired pro-life advocates from Presidential Commissions while appointing pro-abortion nominees to lead federal agencies, including the appointment of pro-abortion lawyer Sarah Cleveland as a legal advisor to the State Department, the choice of Geeta Rao Gupta to be the head of the State Department’s Office for Global Women’s Issues, and the selection of Cathy Russell to lead UNICEF, the UN’s children’s agency.

Biden reinstated and increased funding to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), becoming the first U.S. president to contribute to its thematic fund, UNFPA Supplies, which distributes abortion drugs and devices.

Biden supported the repeal of the Helms Amendment, which forbids U.S. foreign assistance from directly funding the promotion or provision of abortion, though this would require an act of Congress.  In the meantime, his administration has shown signs of willingness to redefine the amendment to include exceptions.  Biden’s White House also issued a memo supporting legislation declaring abortion to be a human right.

The Biden administration signaled support for ratifying more UN human rights treaties. He also wants to use legislation to prevent any future Republican president from reintroducing the Mexico City Policy.

The Biden administration has moved steadily toward promoting the decriminalization of prostitution, including by adopting the term “sex work,” used by activists to legitimize the sale of sex as a type of work like any other.

He established a Gender Policy Council which will advance gender ideology around the world, and which is his primary mechanism of engaging with pro-abortion organizations on policy issues. He has also restored the practice begun under former President Barack Obama to include abortion in the annual State Department Human Rights Report under the heading of
“reproductive rights.”

Global support for sexual orientation and gender identity as human rights categories remained a part of U.S. policy under Trump’s administration, though it was promoted less aggressively than under former Obama.  Under Biden, who previously served as Obama’s vice-president, support for the LGBTQ agenda has become a whole-of-government mandate.

He allocated $10 million to the “Global Equality Fund,” which would will allow the U.S. government to blacklist foreign religious leaders who speak out in favor of the natural family and against homosexuality or gender ideology.

This fall, the Biden administration threw its weight behind the inclusion of “sexual orientation and gender identity” language in a UN General Assembly resolution on support for fair elections.  Though many countries expressed their outrage in oral statements, they allowed the resolution to be adopted by consensus.

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