STATUTORY
Helms Modification (1973)
Prohibits the usage of international help to pay for the efficiency of abortion as a way of household planning or to encourage or coerce any particular person to apply abortion. Observe: which means of “encourage” clarified by Leahy Modification (1994); see under.
Abortion
All international help licensed beneath the Overseas Help Act of 1961(FAA); all funds beneath State-Overseas Operations Appropriations (State-Overseas Ops.)
Sure, in impact.
Everlasting regulation, modification to the FAA.Additionally included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Involuntary Sterilization Modification (1978)
Prohibits the usage of funds to pay for involuntary sterilizations as a way of household planning or to coerce or present a monetary incentive to anybody to endure sterilization.
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Incentives; Involuntary Sterilization
All international help licensed by the FAA of 1961; all international help funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Everlasting regulation, modification to the FAA.Additionally included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Peace Corps Provision (1978)
Prohibits Peace Corps funding from paying for an abortion for a Peace Corps volunteer or trainee; starting in FY 2015, permits for cost in instances the place the lifetime of the lady is endangered by being pregnant or in instances of rape or incest.
Abortion
All Peace Corps funding
Sure, in impact.
Included beneath the “Peace Corps” heading of the State-Overseas Ops.
Biden Modification (1981)
States that funds might not be used for biomedical analysis associated to strategies of or the efficiency of abortion or involuntary sterilization as a way of household planning.
Abortion; Involuntary Sterilization
All international help licensed by the FAA of 1961; all international help funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Everlasting regulation, modification to the FAA.Additionally included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Siljander Modification (1981)
Prohibits the usage of funds to foyer for or towards abortion. When initially launched, the modification prohibited solely lobbying for abortion, however in subsequent years Congress modified the language to incorporate lobbying towards abortion as properly.
Abortion
All funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
DeConcini Modification (1985)
Requires that U.S. funds be supplied to organizations that supply, both immediately or via referral to, details about entry to a broad vary of household planning strategies and companies. See Livingston-Obey Modification (1986) under.
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection
All FP funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Kemp-Kasten Modification (1985)
Prohibits funding any group or program, as decided by the President, that helps or participates within the administration of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.
UNFPA Funding; Abortion; Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Involuntary Sterilization
All funds beneath State-Overseas Ops. in addition to unobligated balances from prior appropriations acts
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops. annually; Presidents decided that it utilized to UNFPA in FY85-FY92, FY02-FY08, FY17-FY20.
Involuntary Sterilization and Abortion Provision (1985)
Specifies that U.S. international help funding may very well be withheld from a rustic or group if the president certifies that the usage of such funds would violate key provisions of the FAA of 1961 associated to abortion or involuntary sterilization (particularly the Helms, Biden, and Involuntary Sterilization Amendments).
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Incentives; Abortion; Involuntary Sterilization
All international help funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Livingston-Obey Modification (1986)
Prohibits discrimination by the U.S. authorities towards organizations that supply solely “pure household planning” for spiritual or conscientious causes when the U.S. authorities is awarding associated grants. All such candidates should adjust to the necessities of the DeConcini Modification (1985).
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection
All FP funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Leahy Modification (1994)
Clarifies Helms Modification (1973) language that makes use of the time period “encourage” by stating that “encourage” shall not be construed to ban, the place authorized, the availability of knowledge or counseling about all being pregnant choices.
Abortion; Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection
All authorizing and appropriating laws associated to the State Dept., international operations, and associated packages
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Timing of Launch of UNFPA Contribution Funds (1994)
No more than half of funding designated for the U.S. contribution to UNFPA is to be launched earlier than a selected date (varies by fiscal 12 months).
UNFPA Funding
Funds made accessible to UNFPA
No, not in impact.
Generally included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Circumstances on Availability of UNFPA Funds (UNFPA Segregated U.S. Contribution Account; UNFPA Does Not Fund Abortions; Prohibition on the Use of U.S. Funds in China by UNFPA) (1994)
States that funds might not be made accessible to UNFPA until:
UNFPA retains the U.S. contribution to the company in a separate account, to not be commingled with different funds, and
UNFPA doesn’t fund abortions (word: language used starting in FY00).It additionally prohibits UNFPA from utilizing any funds from the U.S. contribution of their programming in China.
UNFPA Funding; Abortion
Funds made accessible to UNFPA
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
UNFPA Greenback-for-Greenback Withholding of Quantity UNFPA Plans to Spend in China Throughout Fiscal Yr (1994)
Reduces the U.S. contribution to UNFPA by one greenback for each greenback that UNFPA spends on its programming in China.
UNFPA Funding
Funds made accessible to UNFPA
Sure, in impact.
Usually included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Tiahrt Modification (1998)
Prohibits the usage of targets/quotas and monetary incentives in household planning initiatives and requires initiatives to offer understandable info on household planning strategies. Protects individuals who select to not use household planning from being denied rights or advantages and requires experimental household planning strategies be supplied solely within the context of a scientific examine. Meant to “promote voluntarism and stop coercion in household planning packages,” it particularly prohibits three varieties of targets: complete variety of births, variety of household planning acceptors, and acceptors of a selected methodology of household planning.
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Incentives and Disincentives
All FP funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Reallocation of Funds Not Made Out there to UNFPA (2004)
Gives for funds not made accessible to UNFPA to be reallocated to USAID’s household planning, maternal, and reproductive well being actions/companies (and, in some years, help to susceptible kids and victims of trafficking in individuals).
UNFPA Funding
Funds appropriated for UNFPA
Sure, in impact.
Usually included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
Medically Correct Data on Condoms (2005)
Ensures that info supplied by U.S.-supported packages about the usage of condoms is medically correct info and contains the general public well being advantages and failure charges of such use.
Condoms
All funds beneath State-Overseas Ops.
Sure, in impact.
Usually included in annual State-Overseas Ops.
POLICY
USAID Coverage Paper on Inhabitants Help (1982)
Outlines the longstanding USAID pointers surrounding its basic programmatic ideas of voluntarism and knowledgeable selection and consent.
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent
All FP/RH help supplied by USAID
Sure, in impact.
Coverage Dedication 3 (PD-3): USAID Coverage Tips on Voluntary Sterilization (1982)
Describes pointers for knowledgeable consent and voluntarism particularly for voluntary sterilization companies, together with provisions to make sure prepared entry to different contraceptive strategies and prohibiting incentive funds which may induce an individual to pick voluntary sterilization over one other methodology.
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Voluntary Sterilization
All FP/RH help supplied by USAID
Sure, in impact.
Mexico Metropolis Coverage (“World Gag Rule”, 1984)
As a situation for receiving U.S. household planning help and, now, additionally different world well being help (see “Applies to”), requires international NGOs to certify that they won’t carry out or promote abortion as a way of household planning utilizing funds from any supply.Beneath the Trump administration, it was known as “Defending Life in World Well being Help” coverage.
Abortion
1984- 2003: when in impact, was utilized to FP help at USAID solely. In 2003, expanded to incorporate all FP help at USAID and the State Dept., exempting multilateral organizations and HIV/AIDS funding beneath PEPFAR. 2009-17: Not in impact. 2017-2021: utilized to all world well being help. 2021-present: Not in impact.
No, not in impact.
Not presently in pressure.
USAID Publish-Abortion Care Coverage (2001)
Clarifies that post-abortion care – the therapy of accidents or diseases brought on by authorized or unlawful abortion – is permitted beneath the Helms Modification and that any restrictions beneath the Mexico Metropolis Coverage, when in pressure, don’t restrict organizations from treating accidents or diseases brought on by authorized or unlawful abortions (i.e., offering post-abortion care). Notes USAID doesn’t finance handbook vacuum aspiration tools buy/distribution for any function.
Publish-Abortion Care
All FP/RH help supplied by USAID
Sure, in impact.
Steerage on the Definition and Use of the World Well being Applications Account: Part on Allowable Makes use of of Funds for Household Planning/Reproductive Well being (2014)
Outlines allowable makes use of of funds for FP/RH by offering an outline of actions allowed and examples of actions not allowed, addressing not solely FP/RH actions but additionally household planning actions’ integration with different world well being and multisectoral actions.
FP/RH Actions; FP/RH System Strengthening Actions; Built-in FP Actions
All FP/RH help supplied by USAID
Sure, in impact.
Up to date periodically.
PEPFAR 2023 Nation and Regional Operational Plan Steerage
Outlines sure FP/RH actions that could be reported beneath particular PEPFAR price range classes, similar to youth-friendly sexual and RH companies which can be a part of prevention for adolescent ladies and younger ladies.
HIV/AIDS Program Linkages with FP/RH Actions; Abortion
“Wraparound” PEPFAR actions associated to FP/RH
Sure, in impact.
Up to date yearly; shifting to biennial.
Normal Provisions for Nongovernmental Organizations (U.S. and Non-U.S.)
Define necessities that should be hooked up to help agreements, together with language implementing FP/RH authorized and coverage necessities described above (e.g., the Helms and Leahy Amendments.)
Voluntarism/
Knowledgeable Selection & Consent; Incentives; Abortion; Involuntary Sterilization; Condoms; FP/RH Actions
USAID help agreements
Sure, in impact.
Up to date periodically.
Notes: PEPFAR= U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Aid; UNFPA= United Nations Inhabitants Fund; USAID= U.S. Company for Worldwide Improvement.
