Wed Nov 3, 2021 – 7:37 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – During the Obama administration, the U.S. coerced countries into accepting abortion or being silent on their pro-life and pro-family priorities by threatening to withhold foreign aid, a former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official during the Trump administration shared.
Valerie Huber, who was tasked with promoting life and family internationally under the Trump administration, explained to Alex Marlow on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily, “What I learned very quickly was that pro-life and pro-family countries around the world, large and small, were being intimidated and even threatened with withholding foreign assistance if they didn’t either stay quiet about the national priorities they had in the protection of life and family or change their policies and laws as a result.”
“What was really striking was that our own government was complicit with this under President Obama and I fear that the same is true under President Biden, where it appear[s] that U.S. diplomacy with countries abroad was really only focused on their social issues regarding the family and abortion,” she continued.
Huber has emphasized that not only do these coercive tactics infringe
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