The Trump administration expanded the policy to include other forms of foreign aid such as global health assistance. The policy has been upheld by each subsequent Republican administration and overturned by each Democratic administration. First implemented under the Regan administration, the policy prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for nongovernmental organizations abroad that perform abortions. Meaney also predicted that a Biden administration would almost immediately rescind the so-called Mexico City Policy. “We can expect everything that happened during the Obama administration to happen again,” he said.īiden has already signaled his intention to reinstitute Obama-era executive action which would remove conscience protections from religious organizations, like the Little Sisters of the Poor, requiring them to provide abortifacient drugs and sterilizations to their employees under health care plans. Joseph Meaney, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, told CNA that former vice president Joe Biden has taken “the most extreme stance he could on the abortion issue.”īiden has reversed his previous support for Hyde amendment-which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion procedures-Meaney said, and “basically signaled with that that he was not going to do any pro-life stance in any way, shape, or form.” While much of the political focus on abortion remains on future Supreme Court nominees and the possibility of revising or overturning Roe v Wade, pro-life leaders told CNA that the president holds sway directly over several key appointments and policy areas related to life issues, and that the effects of a pro-abortion administration would be immediate. He also pledged to let minor children who entered the country with their parents illegally - a group of about 700,000 young people known as Dreamers - to legally stay and take steps toward US citizenship.WASHINGTON - Pro-life leaders have said that policy decisions and presidential appointments made within the first 100 days of a Biden administration could roll back conscience protections and civil liberties for Catholic organizations and medical providers, and reverse limits on taxpayer funding for abortion procedures overseas. "Within 100 days, I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people," Biden said in his final debate with Trump, on October 22. One of his more controversial steps could be action on the millions of undocumented people living in the United States.
He would also rescind the travel bans that prohibit foreign nationals from several majority Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Biden has described the separations as a "criminal" result of Trump's zero-tolerance policy aimed at deterring migrants from crossing into the US. He has announced he would immediately create a federal task force to reunite more than 500 children who were taken from their parents by the Trump administration at the US-Mexico border. Biden has promised a substantial set of immigration reforms should he win the White House. His plans include creating a grant program that encourages states to reduce incarceration and crime, ensuring housing for formerly incarcerated individuals and strategies to reduce repeat offending. Biden, who authored numerous tough-on-crime bills when he was a senator, is also calling for sweeping criminal justice reform. But other Democrats have expressed a clear preference for the move now that Trump's third nominee to the bench, Amy Coney Barrett, has been confirmed, cementing its six-three conservative majority. He has said he is "not a fan" of expanding the US Supreme Court beyond its current nine members. Biden has promised to quickly appoint a bipartisan national commission that would have 180 days to study the judicial system - which the Democrat said is "getting out of whack" - and propose reforms. He also promised to quickly reverse several of Trump's rollbacks of regulations on environmental standards. Biden has adopted an ambitious $2 trillion climate change plan including a "clean energy revolution" that aims to achieve net zero emissions economy-wide no later than 2050. It's all falling apart." Biden says he would also convene a climate summit of the world's leading polluters to "persuade" them to make more ambitious pledges to reduce carbon emissions. "Because with us out, look what's happening.
"The first thing I will do, I will rejoin the Paris accord," Biden promised during his debut debate against Trump, who exited the landmark global agreement in 2017. Biden has long called for comprehensive action to combat climate change in the United States, battered by growing numbers of hurricanes and wildfires in recent years. Biden has also pledged to invest heavily in renewable energies.
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