Posted on 02/10/2017 5:55:26 AM PST by Olog-hai
An international conference to raise money for charities providing access to safe abortion will be held in Brussels in March in response to President Donald Trump’s gag on US funding, conference co-host Sweden said on Thursday.
Development aid ministers from Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, as well as representatives from over 50 countries are expected to attend the “She Decides” conference on March 2.
In one of his first acts as president, Trump reintroduced the global gag rule, enacted by Ronald Reagan in 1984, which prohibits foreign charities from using US federal funding to provide abortion services, information, counseling or referrals.
“It’s therefore important that we stay strong and explain that we will continue to stand for women’s rights,” Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin told AFP. She said the international community “would not roll back several decades” on the right of women to decide over their bodies. …
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Why do they couch these conferences in such terms as “women’s conference or womens health initiative”. Why not just call them abortion conferences? Yes it is a rhetorical question.
Access to “safe” abortion.
Not so “safe” for the baby...
I wonder how far they’d get with “we just want access to “safe” euthanasia for mom and dad”
They’re working on it. Slippery slope already in place.
But no 50+ countries holding a "She Decides" on the rapes that are currently dominating their unreported crime stats.
She Decides to Murder
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