Posted on 06/18/2010 4:45:24 PM PDT by NYer
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden travelled to Kenya to personally urge the country to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion - and to assure Kenyans that such a change would "allow money to flow" from foreign aid treasuries.
At the same time, a federal probe is attempting to determine whether the Obama Administration is violating federal law by using taxpayer money to lobby for the constitution, deeply controversial in Kenya in large part because of its abortion provisions.
"We are hopeful, Barack Obama is hopeful, I am hopeful that you will carry out these reforms to allow money to flow," Biden told a crowd of Kenyans, among whom President Obama is extremely popular and touted as a native son of their country.
A clause in the proposed constitution has received heavy criticism from religious leaders in Kenya for allowing abortion when a mother's "health" is endangered - a term that, as abortion advocates admitted at the Women Deliver conference in Washington, D.C. last week, "can be broadly interpreted when need be."
Asked about the abortion issue, Biden told Rev. Timothy Njoya not to “confuse that with the position of the US President, US Vice President and US Government," according to Kenya's Daily Nation.
Yet some are not so sure that such a line can be drawn. Last month, 3 U.S. congressmen with legal oversight jurisdiction over federal international funds launched a probe into whether the Obama administration is violating federal law by promoting the controversial constitution.
“The Obama Administration’s advocacy in support of Kenya’s proposed constitution may constitute a serious violation of the Siljander Amendment and, as such, may be subject to civil and criminal penalties under the Antideficiency Act," wrote Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in a May 6 letter to Inspectors General of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Siljander Amendment of the State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, reads: “None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to lobby for or against abortion."
The lawmakers pointed out that the abortion issue is prominent in the public debate over the proposed document, and that the chairman of Kenya’s Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review identified abortion as "one of the four most contentious issues in the proposed constitution.”
Rep. Smith said that as much as $10 million in taxpayer funds may have been spent in support of the pro-abortion constitution as of May.
Ping!
He is truly an ‘evil man’, serving in a truly ‘evil administration’.
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Leviticus 20:1-5
God will continue to punish our nation as long as we tolerate our wicked leaders exporting child murder- worship to Molech- satan.
We must withdraw consent and stop this murdering regime.
Biden, you big dope, it’s about 49 years too late.
You’re not going to get to become president that way.
We have a lawless, Godless president.
America wanted him. They got him. Elections have consequences. God help us.
And how many in the previous administrations did so?
Hmmmm.......
Biden meet millstone.
LLS
No, 52.3% of Americans that bothered to vote wanted him... 60.4 million of us did not want him. There is a difference.
LLS
Re #10
Very interesting.
Nice catch!
So Biden wants to see more black & brown babies dead?
Murder and heresy bookmark.
The right to life issue has always been my #1 issue and I’m gratified that although a small majority at least a majority are against abortion. Good decent people don’t abort their young. Maybe the godless liberals will abort themselves out of existence. I await the day they appear on the endangered species list.
Yea Father just keep giving him Holy Communion.
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