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Barack Obama Forces Taxpayers to Fund Foreign Abortions
LifeNews.com ^ | January 23, 2009 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/23/2009 2:15:05 PM PST by SErtelt

Washington, DC -- Barack Obama promised during the presidential campaign that he wanted to reduce abortions and said as much in a statement yesterday in association with the anniversary of Roe. Today, however, he betrayed that promise by forcing taxpayers to fund groups promoting and performing abortions overseas.

In an executive order, the president officially scrapped the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Now, Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.

Obama was slated to overturn on Thursday the protections President Bush put back in place following the Clinton administration, but Obama decided to wait.

He hoped his decision today to force taxpayers to fund foreign abortions will somehow make him seem less radical because he decided to wait until after the pro-life movement mourned the thirty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; agenda; bho44; bhoabortion; brokenpromises; demlies; mexicocity; obama; plannedparenthood; prlife; proaborts; taxpayerfunding
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1 posted on 01/23/2009 2:15:07 PM PST by SErtelt
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To: SErtelt

Tax payer revolt needed.


2 posted on 01/23/2009 2:21:08 PM PST by BARLF
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To: SErtelt

May the good Lord recall Barry ASAP.


3 posted on 01/23/2009 2:23:43 PM PST by mcshot ("prepare to ditch" Sully 01/09)
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To: SErtelt

That’s great. We are in a supposed depression and he’s sending tax dollars to other parts of the world to kill
babies. I don’t get it.
He stopped the trials of terrorists (which the 911 families aren’t happy about) but he’ll fund abortions?
I still don’t get it.
I remember it’s not at his pay grade.
Let’s boot him out of office in 2012 in Jesus Name!!!


4 posted on 01/23/2009 2:24:37 PM PST by RolandTignor
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To: SErtelt

While I’m against abortion, I wish we’d have funded them for the Arab world the last 50 or 60 years.


5 posted on 01/23/2009 2:25:59 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: SErtelt

So much for “choice.” We have a right to see babies terminated, but you don’t have a say in the funding for it. The pro-abortionists are a bunch of hypocritical bastards.


6 posted on 01/23/2009 2:27:03 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The Libertarian and Constitution Parties should merge into one)
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To: SErtelt

The womb: most dangerous abode in the world.

May the screams of these innocent babies haunt these politicians for eternity.


7 posted on 01/23/2009 2:28:35 PM PST by Integrityrocks
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To: SErtelt

How does somebody, anybody wake up, stretch out and think to themselves, ‘Yep, today I’m gonna sign an Executive Order that will further enable and fund the killing of unborn babies in foreign countries. This is precisely how I’m gonna reduce abortions’.

I can’t imagine being able to live with myself.


8 posted on 01/23/2009 2:35:27 PM PST by OriginalChristian (If you can't get Life right, nothing else you think or say matters....)
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To: Integrityrocks

The prospect of even more abortions trumps even money.
This was among the first things the o administration felt
needed to be done. What kind of person has the death of
the innocents as a priority? I think I know, and I think
this nation will be judged.


9 posted on 01/23/2009 2:36:50 PM PST by jusduat (wondering,questioning,searching)
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To: SErtelt

Yeah, we have to bail out banks, but we can afford to pay for someone to have sex.

And that is ALL IT IS PEOPLE. We are paying for people to have sex. If they weren’t having sex, there would be no need for abortion because there would be no unwanted pregnancy.


10 posted on 01/23/2009 2:37:23 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: SErtelt

What does it say about us if we allow these things to
continue.

Tea party? Battle of the Old North Bridge?

The time for words has passed.


11 posted on 01/23/2009 2:38:47 PM PST by Semper Mark
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To: Slump Tester

Oh gawd.


12 posted on 01/23/2009 2:39:57 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - America the Beautiful)
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To: SErtelt

God sends ‘em and Obortion kills ‘em. Nice.


13 posted on 01/23/2009 2:41:02 PM PST by JPG
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To: BARLF

It’s like saying we need to close the barn door after the cows have gotten out.

Too late, folks!

What we need is some serious prayer that they will be bound and deterred from carrying out their devious/wicked plans!


14 posted on 01/23/2009 2:42:24 PM PST by Anita1 ( "Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last." Luke 13:30)
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To: SErtelt

It is time for the tax payers of this country to revolt. Paying for abortions overseas is taxation without representation.


15 posted on 01/23/2009 2:49:35 PM PST by mom-7
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To: mom-7

They force the bailouts without our approvals, why not abortions of the innocents?

I think more than a tax revolt is needed. A march on Washington with guns to clean out the moral cesspool is called for. Unfortunately I don’t think there are enough men left in America with the balls.


16 posted on 01/23/2009 2:52:20 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: SErtelt

“Paging Douglas Kmiec to the house phone.... your 30 pieces of silver are ready.”

“Paging Douglas Kmiec to the house phone.... your 30 pieces of silver are ready”


17 posted on 01/23/2009 2:55:01 PM PST by Tallmadge
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To: SErtelt
In an executive order, the president officially scrapped the Mexico City Policy that protected taxpayers from involvement in overseas abortions for eight years. Now, Obama will send hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that aggressively promote abortions on a worldwide scale.

By this act Obama is guilty of first degree premeditated murder. He moreover declares himself in favor or torturing the innocent unto death, for abortion is torture, while he opposes harsh interrogation for terrorists.

He and those who voted for him will have much to answer for in the day of judgment.

18 posted on 01/23/2009 3:09:30 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: mom-7

It’s disgusting, but it’s not taxation without representation. They do lots of things with our tax dollars that many people don’t approve of. Our Democrat opponents have been harping on that ever since the Iraq war began.

What it is is a contradiction of what Obama said when he opined that he can’t force his personal religious beliefs on others with his political actions. He doesn’t personally believe that abortion is right (Seriously?), but he can’t force everyone to practice that. Although he doesn’t seem to think it’s wrong to force those of us who don’t approve of abortion to pay for them with our tax dollars.

But then, we all knew Obama was a lying hypocrite.


19 posted on 01/23/2009 3:10:29 PM PST by erkyl (The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, stay neutral)
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To: OriginalChristian
I can’t imagine being able to live with myself.

I imagine you have a soul and a conscience. Some don't.

20 posted on 01/23/2009 3:28:45 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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