As he promised, Biden has reversed US policy that was preventing taxpayer support for abortion in foreign countries only 8 days after inauguration. However, it will take quite a bit of time for institutions in these countries to gear up for performing an increased number of abortions again, perhaps as much as 2 years in some cases.

Since Reagan began the policy in 1984, every democrat president has canceled it and every republican president has restored it. Trump took the policy to a new level. Now there is discussion of a new federal law to make it impossible for future republican presidents to enact a version of the “Mexico City Policy” in the future.

Some people have expressed a deep discomfort with a policy by which white people promote and subsidize the abortion of brown and black babies.