US Foreign Aid Used to Push Abortion, Gender Ideology Around the World

The United States spends more than $40 billion a year on foreign assistance. For decades, there has existed in Congress bipartisan support for humanitarian relief and other forms of foreign assistance, but that consensus is now threatened as federal agencies and the nongovernmental aid organizations they work with are increasingly promoting a far-left ideology and agenda in their programs—including climate change, abortion, and radical LGBTQ and gender ideology.

The leftist agenda being pushed in these programs isn’t just threatening congressional support, it is alienating the nations that receive this much-needed aid. For example, the inclusion of abortion and the LGBTQ agenda in America’s flagship health program, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (currently being considered for reauthorization by Congress), has angered leaders across Africa.

On Tuesday, more than 100 parliamentarians and religious and civil society leaders from 15 African countries sent a letter (see below) to the U.S. Senate and House leadership thanking Congress for supporting this life-saving program, but demanding that Africa’s pro-life, pro-family values be respected.