If this isn't a sign of what we will have to be dealing with the entire time our new President is in office, I don't know what it. I am ready to fight for families, fight for laws to ban abortion and fight for ADOPTION! Abortions kill innocent children that could have a loving place on earth with families that would do anything to have them! Forget killing a life, trying giving a life!
Obama to Lift Ban on Overseas Abortion Funding
"President Obama on Friday is expected to lift a ban on federal funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions, reversing a policy of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Obama will sign the executive order one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.
Liberal groups welcomed the decision while abortion rights foes criticized the president, who was long expected to make this move during his first week in office.
The so-called Mexico City policy requires any non-governmental organization to agree before receiving U.S. funds that they will "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."
It is also known as the "global gag rule," because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that even talk about abortion if there is an unplanned pregnancy.
The policy was first instituted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and continued by President George H.W. Bush. The policy was reversed by President Bill Clinton in 1993, and re-instated by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will oversee foreign aid, had promised to do away with the gag rule during the presidential campaign. Clinton is to visit the U.S. Agency for International Development, through which much U.S. foreign aid is disbursed, later on Friday.
Organizations that had pressed Obama to make the abortion-ban change were jubilant.
"Women's health has been severely impacted by the cutoff of assistance. "President Obama's actions will help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning," said Tod Preston, a spokesman for Population Action International, an advocacy group.
Anti-abortion groups criticized the move.
"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.
Obama has spent his first days in office systematically signing executive orders reversing Bush administration policies on issues ranging from foreign policy to government operations. On Thursday, he signed three executive orders to rein in secretive U.S. counterterror policies and end harsh interrogations."
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He's been president for little over a day and is already proving to his skeptics that he's unqualified and well, just plain idiotic.
Hopefully all the Obama voters will learn their lessons when our nation is completely SCREWED up a couple years from now.
Lila! you have no idea how FUMING UPSET I was over this all day yesterday!! It is ridiculous!!! This morning I had the best workout at the gym getting all my adrenaline out from thinking about it so much! You can help by going to www.fightfoca.com...I can't even write about it it discusts me so--and don't even get me started about gitmo...
It makes me want to cry. All those around me... my MIL, my father... everyone supporting the eloquent Obama. I just want to shake them and say "Why?" All because they smile upon social programs and are hoping he's an answer to this economy crisis.
The chain is falling apart on the grounds of morality in this country, it is so sad to see. The affects will surely be devastating.
Its disgusting Obama just disgusts me in SO many ways well cross our fingers that country is still standing.... morally at least at the end of this
I dont understand why you're upset. Obama stopped wasting tax payer/American dollars.
He is stopping funds to overseas comntries who promote abortion or conduct aborations.
I always figured you were against abortions, not pro choice. I wish he would stop federal funding to clinics here in the state that perform abortions.
Hmmm....
Dear grumpy old guy,
I think you may have been misinformed. In the Bush adminstration, A BAN was put on using tax $ to international agencies that support abortions, and now Obama has released that ban which in fact ALLOWS tax $ to go to the organizations that SUPPORT and fund abortions internationally. Now that this has been approved internationally, it only provides another arguing point for the pushing of government funding to become regularly involved in abortion clinics here in the US, thus even more so 'normalizing' it for society.
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