Republican Senator Jim Banks, a member of the Senator Marco Rubio, has called for government agencies that have been underwritten in foreign countries to adopt abortion rights in exchange for US assistance.
On Thursday afternoon, Rubio wrote a letter calling Rubio to Rubio to complete a thorough investigation of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and “complete a thorough investigation” under the Biden administration. Foundation. (Related: The national fund NPR will go to a quest to confirm the facts, and instead owns itself).
“It is wrong to hold the hostage to apply pressure to adopt a law in favor of other countries in other countries,” Banks wrote. “It is unconscious that the United States uses MCC to protect Sierra Leonen to the fetus.”
Banks have specifically argued that the MCC threatened that if the national parliament had refused to adopt the undergone agreement under consideration, it would refuse foreign assistance to Sierra Leone in West Africa. According to a bank letter, the law called the “Safe Maternal Law” has no restrictions on the “Safe Maternal Law” and has an adverse effect on “mental health of women”, up to 14 weeks. Legalization of abortion up to birth.
Banks have also called on Rubio to “reconfirm US support to respect foreign protection to the fetus.”
Donald Trump is the most president of life we have ever had. https://t.co/wsvvvk1fhxl
-Jim Banks (@jim_banks) January 25, 2025
The United States signed a contract with Sierra Leone in September 2024. award According to MCC’s compact outline, energy -in -frustration is $ 480 million over five years to reduce power costs.
The daily traffic light was so beginning He said that if the MCC did not pass the laws of the Sierra Leone mainly to force Muslim countries to force abortions, MCC would threaten almost 5 billion of foreign aid. To report the claim.
under the current Sierra Leone’s law and abortion are only allowed when the mother’s life is AT in a crisis. This country is near Muslims, According to In the 2019 estimate by Cia World Factbook.
Banks also asks Rubio to use the MCC’s non -profitable Freedom House to evaluate whether Sierra Leone is qualified for foreign aid. Government agency Use According to the MCC website, the Freedom House analysis that evaluates foreign “political rights” and “citizens’ freedom”.
MCC Given Sierra Leone hands the mark to the “political rights” and “citizens’ freedom” indicators in 2024.
The Indiana Republican letter observes the free house It was lowered Roev does not recognize the constitutional right to abortion. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling of overturning Wade, a score card of the United States “Individual Autonomy and Personal Rights”.
MCC was established by Congress in 2004 to provide foreign aid to the world’s poorest. According to To the government agency website.
President Donald Trump signature The presidential decree established a 90 -day freezing of foreign aid on January 20. Rubio Exemption “Life program” related to medicine, food, and shelters that fall under the Ministry of State.
Trump has also canceled the policy of the Biden era, known as the Mexico City rule, and has allowed foreign organizations and programs to use US dollars to perform abortions.
The MCC spokesman did not respond immediately to the DCNF comment request.
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