Restore the Helms Amendment to prohibit federal taxpayer funding for abortion overseas.

amendments to the State and Foreign Operations funding bill to restore the Helms Amendment, which prohibits federal taxpayer funding for abortion as a method of family planning overseas

The source says Smith offered an amendment to restore the Helms Amendment ban on overseas abortion funding.

Rep Smith gets A+ on pro-life scorecard - Friends of Chris Smith
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The official site’s latest news list shows entries dated June 17, June 15, and June 11, 2026; the newest abortion-related item shown is the June 11 mifepristone letter.

No Helms-restoration action appears in the official feed during the June 22-24 lookback window; the claim remains unresolved.

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Chris Smith | U.S. Congressman for New Jersey's 4th District
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Smith led 16 members of Congress in a comment letter urging EPA to add mifepristone to its Contaminant Candidate List, citing concern over public-water contamination and adverse effects.

This shows ongoing concrete anti-abortion policymaking, but it does not restore the Helms Amendment or change overseas federal abortion funding.

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Smith, Brecheen, Lankford lead letter to EPA Admin. Zeldin urging addition of chemical abortion drug mifepristone to list of contaminants in public water systems | U.S. Representative
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22 U.S.C. 2151b(f) provides that foreign-assistance funds may not be used to pay for abortions as a family-planning method or to motivate or coerce abortions.

The Helms Amendment restriction was already codified and in force; this supports the substance of prohibiting overseas abortion funding but does not itself show a new restoration by Smith.

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22 USC 2151b: Population planning and health programs
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The memorandum revokes Biden's 2021 action, reinstates the 2017 Mexico City Policy, directs extension across global health assistance, and orders action so U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund coercive abortion programs.

During Smith's 2025-2027 House term, the administration restored the main overseas abortion-funding restriction that bars U.S. support for foreign organizations or programs involved in abortion-related activity.

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Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the United States for International Development
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The fact sheet says the Presidential Memorandum reinstated the Mexico City Policy to stop federal taxpayer dollars for abortion overseas and prevent support for foreign organizations performing or promoting abortion.

This directly matches the promise's overseas taxpayer-funding component, though the White House describes the mechanism as the Mexico City Policy rather than a new enactment of the Helms Amendment.

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White House Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Enforces Overwhelmingly Popular Demand to Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion
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Executive Order 14182 was signed January 24, 2025, revoked Executive Orders 14076 and 14079, and made it U.S. policy to end forced taxpayer funding or promotion of elective abortion.

This official Federal Register record confirms the same-term executive reversal of Biden-era abortion-funding actions, but it is principally domestic Hyde enforcement rather than the overseas Helms/Mexico City component.

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Federal Register: Executive Order 14182, Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
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Smith said Biden integrated an abortion agenda into global health and that reinstating Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance would reverse that policy, citing PEPFAR and overseas taxpayer-funded abortion concerns.

Smith publicly advanced the same overseas abortion-funding reversal on the day the White House memorandum was issued, showing alignment and advocacy but not a separate Smith-sponsored legislative enactment.

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March for Life 2025: 'We have hope. We have just begun.'
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