Max Primorac, Grace Melton
What is President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s foreign policy plan? That’s a question that few have answers to, but for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world the stakes could not be higher.
East Africa faith leaders are raising the alarm. In August, Archbishop Renatus Leonard Nkwande of Mwanza, Tanzania, said the West is “sending us missionaries of evil.” It is a strange thing for people thousands of miles away to say, yet it is a frequent refrain from Africans, Latin Americans and others frustrated by a White House fixated on the global promotion of abortion and radical gender ideology.
Over the past four years, President Biden has reinstated funding for the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund as well as groups like International Planned Parenthood Federation. He also mobilized the entire federal government to “promote access to sexual and reproductive health and rights,”—a term that includes abortion—both in the U.S. and abroad. Vice President Kamala Harris has been the administration’s international lead on abortion, promoting it with more gusto even than Biden.
This agenda has not been welcomed in many parts of the world. Last year, 131 African lawmakers and religious leaders from fifteen countries called on the U.S. Congress not to “violate our core beliefs concerning life, family and religion.” Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Health Subcommittee, accused the Biden-Harris administration of “hijacking” billions in foreign aid dollars “to promote abortion.” The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops complained that such programs are “inconsistent with Catholic teaching.”
Similarly, the Biden-Harris administration has pushed radical gender ideology through its diplomacy and foreign assistance. In South Africa, for example, U.S. tax dollars fund “comprehensive sexuality education” curricula that teach fourth graders about being “born in the wrong body,” and describes gender as being “socially constructed.”
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