Trump Administration Officials Reaffirm Commitment to Protect Unborn Life at Geneva Consensus Declaration Anniversary
At the five-year anniversary event of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a coalition of 40 nations affirming that there is no international right to abortion, Trump administration officials reiterated their dedication to “protect unborn life at all stages.” The declaration aims to expand health and well-being for women while protecting the sovereign right of nations to support health, life, and family through national policy and legislation.
The Institute of Women’s Health hosted members of Congress, Trump administration officials, and global leaders to celebrate the milestone. A letter from President Donald Trump was read during the event, in which he pledged to “never waver in protecting the sanctity of every human life.”
“My administration is steadfastly devoted to restoring a culture that values the inherent dignity of every child and to upholding the eternal truth that every person is created in the holy image and likeness of God, with infinite worth and boundless potential,” President Trump wrote.
Jim O’Neill, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, expressed pride in the Trump administration’s decision to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration in January after the Biden administration’s departure from the coalition of pro-life countries.
“The denial of fundamental truths can destroy nations from within,” O’Neill said. “At the root of the evils we face—murder in the womb, the blurring of lines between sexes, and radical social agendas—is a hatred of nature as it was designed for life, the way it was meant to be lived. This ideology does not just deny biology. It declares war against it.”
O’Neill emphasized the administration’s commitment to putting the declaration’s principles into action to protect life at all stages. “President Trump reinstituted the Mexico City Policy. Taxpayers will not be forced to fund entities that provide or promote abortion as foreign family planning,” he stated.
He added, “We’ve removed transgender flags from all federal buildings. Only one flag flies above our embassies, and that is the American flag. We’ve ended taxpayer funding for the mutilation of children and radical indoctrination. Children should not be subjected to life-altering, irreversible damage and sex-trait modification.”
O’Neill promised that the Trump administration will continue advancing the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s principles on the global stage.
“Taxpayer-funded organizations and bureaucrats have sadly long undermined sovereign nations by imposing radical social agendas around the world. The era of taxpayer-funded neocolonialist promotion of leftist ideologies has come to an end, and our work is just beginning,” he said.
Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau highlighted the State Department’s top priority of recognizing national sovereignty.
“I think it’s so important for us all to recognize that the international community has no right to tell anyone of our country what our policy should be on these issues of family and women’s health,” Landau said. “Each nation-state has the right to determine, within its own borders, the policy it decides to pursue on social and cultural issues, like those affecting the family.”
Landau expressed solidarity with the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s “focus on women’s health and its commitment to families as the core of our communities and our countries.”
“We’re created in the image of God. We have families. Families build out into communities, into nations, and ultimately the world. And so, the family is ultimately the manifestation of God’s grace,” he explained. “I think it’s so important that we are all recognizing the importance of the family. This is something, frankly, that declining birth rates in so many parts of the world pose a huge problem facing humankind, and so I respect and welcome focus on these issues.”
Committed to restoring the principle of national sovereignty as central to international relations, Landau said, “Just as President Trump says he wants to make America great again, he expects the leaders of your countries to want to make your countries great again—whether it be Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Cameroon, Egypt, or Paraguay.”
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), a staunch pro-life advocate, expressed gratitude for the Trump administration’s respect for life in the womb.
“The Geneva Consensus Declaration, in my opinion, is an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves to the best of our ability in our home countries, as well as in the international forum,” Smith said.
Smith also urged the Trump administration to intensify efforts to investigate the abortion pill and its negative side effects experienced by many women.
“In the developing world, when a woman starts hemorrhaging, it’s often a death sentence, and she’ll die quietly and horribly in her town or in her hamlet, and nobody will know,” he explained. “There’ll be no statistical gathering for these horrible effects, and that woman will die. I’m very concerned about how everyone looks the other way on the international stage about the abortion pill.”
Addressing United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Smith questioned, “Do you know how the pill works? It starves the baby to death. You and I, Mr. Secretary-General, worked on global hunger. I believe deeply in mitigating world hunger, and yet we have a situation where we’re causing hunger to the point of starvation.”
The event underscored the Trump administration’s dedication to reaffirming national sovereignty, protecting life at all stages, supporting families, and opposing international imposition of social agendas that contradict these values.
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