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EXCLUSIVE: America First Policy Institute (AFPI) is rolling retired an schedule connected Thursday that will "empower women" and support them successful "challenging situations," including unexpected pregnancies, fertility issues, take and more, while providing intelligence wellness resources surrounding abortion and pregnancy.
The preamble of AFPI’s H.O.P.E. schedule comes conscionable days aft former President Trump, nan presumptive Republican nominee, said nan rumor of abortion should beryllium near to nan states. Trump explicitly affirmed his support for successful vitro fertilization (IVF) and emphasized his support for states determining their ain laws for abortion — truthful agelong arsenic location are exceptions for rape, incest and life of nan mother.
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"The states will find by vote, aliases legislation, aliases possibly both, and immoderate they determine must beryllium nan rule of nan onshore – successful this case, nan rule of nan state," Trump said. "Many states will beryllium different. Many states will person a different number of weeks…at nan extremity of nan time it is each astir nan will of nan people."
The H.O.P.E. agenda, obtained by Fox News Digital, is simply a 20-point scheme designed to "empower women successful motherhood, adoption, foster attraction and fertility treatments while reducing nan number of abortions and providing support successful challenging situations, including intelligence wellness needs."
The "H" stands for "Health" for women and babies "at each stages of gestation and after, including regular and emergent aesculapian attraction and intelligence wellness support and entree to IVF treatments."
The "O" stands for "Opportunity" for women to beryllium "supported."
The "P" is for "Prosperity" for women and children to person entree to resources needed to live, including childcare assistance.
The "E" is for "empowerment for women to cognize fathers will beryllium held financially responsible," and more.
The schedule would let courts to "award kid support to mothers while a kid is successful nan womb," and it changes taxation laws that would let expectant mothers to declare a limited aliases kid taxation conclusion connected national taxes nan twelvemonth nan babe was conceived, moreover if calved nan pursuing year. AFPI says that could prevention a mother $3,600.
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The schedule besides addresses ineligible and financial barriers to take and foster attraction done circumstantial taxation credits; enhances healthcare entree to amended outcomes and trim maternal mortality; supports gestation assets centers and organization wellness centers; and prioritizes nan wellness of women and their babies.
The schedule besides makes counseling disposable to women earlier they acquisition abortions.
The scheme would besides require companies that screen abortion costs to besides supply nan aforesaid level of sum for pro-family measures, for illustration seeking infertility treatments aliases pursuing adoption.
The archive besides affirms "the long-standing exceptions [to abortion bans] for victims of title and incest, protecting nan life of nan mother, and ensuring babies calved live person life-saving aesculapian care."
"After 5 decades of tireless advocacy, nan pro-life activity succeeded successful returning decisions regarding abortion policies to state-elected representatives done nan landmark Dobbs decision," AFPI president and CEO Brooke Rollins told Fox News Digital. "We person an opportunity to prioritize a broader group of pro-life and pro-family principles that compassionately attraction for nan lives of some nan female and unborn child."
Crowds extracurricular nan Supreme Court reacting to nan Dobbs ruling. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)
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Rollins added, "Protecting life isn’t conscionable a policy; it’s a committedness to supporting women, children, and those pursuing parenthood."
Rollins told Fox News Digital that AFPI’s schedule connection "upholds nan sanctity of each life and offers support to those pinch financial barriers and those seeking fertility treatments, ensuring entree to nan travel of parenthood for all."
"We admit that each business is unsocial and vow to supply nan attraction and support they deserve," Rollins added.
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AFPI, a 501C3 non-profit, non-partisan investigation institute focused connected "advancing policies that put nan American group first," is led by elder leaders from nan Trump administration, including Rollins, nan erstwhile White House head of nan Domestic Policy Council, erstwhile Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon, and different erstwhile Cabinet-level officials.
The rumor of abortion is precocious connected voters' database up of nan 2024 statesmanlike election.
The Supreme Court, successful 2022, delivered its determination to overturn nan 1973 landmark case, Roe v. Wade, bringing nan issue of abortion backmost to nan states for nan first clip successful astir 50 years.
Brooke Singman is simply a governmental analogous and newsman for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
