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At the start of each new Congress, The Heritage Foundation recommends pro-life policies for Members. The following year, a progress report takes stock of policy wins, ongoing challenges, and new prospects. This is the first such report in a post-Roe America. Free from the dark shadow of Roe v. Wade, Congress cannot shrink from its role in crafting policy that carries out the government’s duty to protect the first freedom: the right to life.

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U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 2022. Risch is the primary sponsor of the American Values Act. / Photo by AL DRAGO/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington D.C., Feb 3, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate would expand and make permanent current laws that are designed to prevent the federal government from funding abortions in other countries through foreign aid. The bill, k...

(Archived document, may contain errors) 633 i I A February 12 1988 IN SOUTHERN AF'RICA, THE STATE DEPARTMENT BETS. AGAINST .THE REAGAN DOCTRINE INTRODUCTION Africa has been the key testing ground in the struggle between the Rea gan Doctrine's support for resistance forces fighting Soviet-backed communist regimes and the Brezhnev Doctrine's insistence on the irreversibility of communist gains.

On Dec. 12, the U.S. government launched its updated and long-awaited Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally.

The head of a pro-life group is slamming the coronavirus relief bill passed by the U.S. House last week, contending that it amounts to a "slush fund" for the major abortion provider Planned Parenthood. 

The State Department has drifted away from its core mission of protecting and promoting U.S. security, prosperity, and democratic values abroad. In foreign political, cultural, and educational programs, the State Department is diverting its attention from the basic objectives of its Joint Strategic Plan (JSP) with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) toward ideology-inspired fringe concepts that are not widely accepted domestically, and in many cases are opposed by U.S. allies a...

 

Miriam Awan argues that global abortion rights are on the midterm ballot. "Repealing the Helms Amendment and gag rule and safeguarding global access to…

For six years, the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Index has been a tool to hold the United States accountable to the commitments