Trump Admin Declares “There’s No Right to Abortion”

At the five-year anniversary celebration of the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a coalition of 40 nations affirming no international right to abortion, Trump administration officials pledged to “protect unborn life at all stages.”

 

The declaration “seeks to expand health and thriving for women, and protect the sovereign right of nations to support health, life, and family through national policy and legislation.”

 

The event, hosted by the Institute of Women’s Health and the document’s author, Valerie Huber, brought together members of Congress, Trump officials, and international leaders.

In a letter read aloud at the event, President Donald Trump vowed to “never waiver 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,” he wrote.

 

Jim O’Neill, deputy secretary of health and human services, announced at the event that the Trump administration was “eager and proud” to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration in January, after the Biden administration withdrew from the pro-life coalition as one of their first official acts in office.

 

“The denial of fundamental truths can destroy nations from within,” he stated. “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,” O’Neill continued.

 

“This ideology does not just denying biology. It declares war against it.”

 

Emphasizing the administration’s commitment to enacting the declaration’s principles to protect life at all stages, he said, “President Trump reinstituted the Mexico City Policy. Taxpayers will not be forced to fund entities that provide or promote abortion as foreign family planning.”

 

“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,” he added. “Children should not be subjected to the life-altering, irreversible damage and sex-trait modification.”

 

It was also announced that the Trump administration will continue promoting the Geneva Consensus Declaration’s principles worldwide.

 

“Taxpayer-funded organizations and bureaucrats have sadly long undermined sovereign nations by imposing radical social agendas around the world,” O’Neill said. “The era of taxpayer-funded neocolonialist promotion of leftist ideologies has come to an end, and our work is just beginning.”

 

Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau stated that the Trump State Department’s top priority is upholding 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 that it decides to pursue on social and cultural issues, like those affecting the family,” he added.

 

Landau voiced “solidarity” with the 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 said. “And I think it’s so important that we are all recognizing the importance of the family. I think this is something, frankly, that declining birth rates in so many parts of the world are a huge problem facing humankind, and so I respect and welcome focus on these issues.”

 

The Trump administration aims to restore national sovereignty as the foundation of international relations, Landau affirmed. On this point alone, I rejoice, for the days of international embarrassment are over for these United States, and rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration is one of the boldest moves in that direction.

 

“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,” he told attendees, “whether it be Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Cameroon, Egypt, or Paraguay.”

 

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., expressed gratitude that the Trump administration respects 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,” he said.

 

Smith went on to urge the Trump administration to investigate the abortion pill and its harmful effects on women, saying, “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.”

 

“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.”

 

Smith went on to directly challenge the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres: “Do you know how the pill works?” he asked. “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.”

 

I thank God for the United States rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration for it is, quite possibly, the most important document for the pro-family movement globally.

 

A Letter From President Donald J. Trump

 

October 22, 2025
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

I send my best wishes to all those gathered to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Geneva Consensus Declaration.

This historic Declaration stands for the advancement of women’s health and opportunity, the protection of life, and the preservation of the family as the heart of a strong and resilient society. For 5 years, its members have worked together to advance these shared values and to ensure that global health efforts reflect a respect for life.

During my first term as President, I was proud to commit the United States of America to the Geneva Consensus Declaration for the first time. Now, since returning to the presidency, I am just as proud to exercise American leadership by rejoining the Declaration after the previous administration withdrew. I will never waiver in protecting the sanctity of every human life. I will always be a voice for the voiceless and a defender for the most vulnerable among us. 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.

Together, with our allies and partners across the world, we will continue to build a future rooted in faith, family, and freedom.

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