U.S. Capitol This Week Nov 20- 23

Written By Emmanuele Da Ponte

The White House

  • More than 100 leading pro-abortion organizations released an abortion wish list for the Biden-Harris administration. These abortion groups push for a White House that destigmatizes and promotes abortion, hires pro-abortionists at all levels of the executive branch, and allows funding for abortion in the U.S. and abroad. Currently, the Hyde and Siljander Amendments prohibit the use of U.S. Government funds for abortion services or lobbying for abortion.

Federal Agencies

  • The US Agency for International Development (USAID) will continue to fund HIV/AIDS programs in Tanzania. This comes in spite of recent discoveries of abortion funding mingling with the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) PEPFAR began as a great initiative yet is now used as a mechanism to fund abortion. In the past, it was used to escape laws such as the Mexico City Policy that prohibited the use of US tax revenues for abortion. Read more here.

Other Agencies

  • The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hosted a hearing evaluating abortion access across the US. The Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the pro-abortion groups requesting the hearing, has been at the forefront of the pro-abortion fight, condemning the Dobbs decision and pushing to increase abortion access across the US. You can access the full report on the hearing here. 

Emmanuele Da Ponte

Emmanuele Da Ponte joined the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) in the summer of 2023 as the Associate Director of Government Relations. He has two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Philosophy and History of the Social Sciences. His main focus is advising and building relationships with Congress and the United Nations to promote truly just legislation that defends and uphold human dignity and family rights.

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