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To implement the foreign policy objective of the United States not to support abortion as a method of family planning overseas directly or indirectly, and to implement the Presidential Memorandum of January 24, 2025 reinstating the Mexico City Policy, the Department is adding new award term entitled Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance. The award term imposes certain abortion-related requirements on foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), United States NGOs, public international organizations, foreign governments, and parastatals. The award term is issued under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA) and other related statutes such as the FREEDOM Support Act, the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and the SEED Act of 1989, which authorize the Department to provide foreign assistance on such terms and conditions as the President, and by delegation, the Secretary of State, may determine.