Posted on 01/22/2017 12:17:29 PM PST by NYer
FULL TITLE: President Donald Trump Will Sign Executive Order Sunday to Defund International Planned Parenthood
A new report out today indicates President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to defund International Planned Parenthood.
Most pro-life Americans are anxiously awaiting Congress to pass a bill to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. While that defunding legislation concerns the domestic-based Planned Parenthood abortion corporation, president Trump has the ability to put in place an executive order that would revoke funding for its International affiliate.
When pro-abortion former President Barack Obama took office, Obama overturned a policy that prevented funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy covered over $400 million in federal funds, part of which flowed to the abortion businesses International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International for their foreign efforts.
As LifeNews.com reported, the pro-life policy had been in place during the entirety of the Bush administration and Obama rescinded it on his first week in office. Named for a 1984 population conference where President Reagan initially announced it, the Mexico City Policy made it so family planning funds could only go to groups that would agree to not do abortions or lobby foreign nations to overturn their pro-life laws.
While the main bill to defund Planned Parenthood must be approved by Congress, Trump can restore the Mexico City Policy by executive order and reportedly intends to do so on Sunday — according to a report in a pro-abortion publication.
As one of his first acts in the Oval Office, the Republican president-elect plans to restore the “Mexico City policy” as soon as Sunday, a congressional staffer told Foreign Policy. The timing of the executive order on Sunday would coincide with the anniversary of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.
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Reacting to the decision in a poll conducted by the Gallup organization, 58 percent of Americans oppose Obama’s pro-abortion decision while just 35 percent support it and 7 percent have no opinion.
Breaking down the new poll further, Gallup asked respondents to state their opinion on seven major actions President Obama has taken since becoming president. Overturning the Mexico City Policy engendered more opposition than any of the other actions and it had the lowest level of support.
The pro-abortion move also evoked the least support from Democrats and the most opposition from Republicans and independents.
While 59 percent of Democrats supported the move, it came in last among the seven total issues on which Gallup surveyed.
Only 8 percent of Republicans backed overturning the limits as did just 33 percent of the independent voters surveyed — with opposition higher about this action than any other Obama has taken a president.
The results of the Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews with 1,027 adults across the country and were conducted January 30-February 1.
At the time, Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, condemned the decision.
He told LifeNews.com how the executive order will hurt non-abortion groups that provide medical care and services to women and families in foreign nations.
“One effect of Obama’s order will be to divert many millions of dollars away from groups that do not promote abortion, and into the hands of those organizations that are the most aggressive in promoting abortion in developing countries,” he said.
“Obama’s order will predictably result in a redirection of funds to groups such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which are ideologically committed to the doctrine that abortion on demand must be universally available as a birth control method,” Johnson said.
no words.....
Winning.
Do think I’ll get tired of it.
5.56mm
With that ugly mug she hopes for a violation that will never come with money changing hands.
So much winning!
I have been wrong many times, but I am happy to say I have never been fooled into thinking that abortion is somehow a great thing for women! I am concerned for the sanity of these women who have nothing better to fight for but the “right” to kill their own children.
More winning!
Planned Parenthood is a private organization, not a government agency. The government has no obligation whatsoever to give them a dime. Let them raise their own funds from their pals in Hollywood.
Hurrah!
Don’t.
Sheesh.
Russians hacked me.
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When you hear these women proclaiming that it is their body and they can do what they want, I strongly disagree. In the first place, when their babies are conceived, the new tissue contains two strands of DNA. It is a new creation, not solely from themselves, but from both father and mother. Unless it was tissue created by themselves (via cloning), or a cancerous tumor, they claim ownership by possesion only, and in fact, could be disputed legally (and has been.) As a matter of faith, that soul was a gift from God and will return to him. I believe that women have a right of self destruction if they so chose, but they do not have the right destroy a new life that was created with part of both father and mother, with the inability of the new life to chose.
“All government funding to NGOs needs to be cut off. This type of funding is infested with cronyism, paybacks, bribes, waste, and much of the money ends up funding the political campaigns of far-left Democrats. Enough.”
When the UN goes, it will take NGOs with it, but you’re right: we need to stop funding them right now.
Henry Hyde funds are fungible.
What is the total amount of money sent overseas for Planned Parenthood?
...and, how do the libs make the case we should continue to send U.S. funds overseas?
Usually when such photos of women are posted, they are followed by Guilty or Not Guilty.
In cases where the photos are of, in your face Vulgar Rioters, they should be judged “Never Laid, Never Will Be and Would Not Know How!
There ARE NO WORDS for these IDIOTS!!! OMG who raised these people!!!!
I love this the day after the big demonstration.
So..., much..., WINNING!
NeverTrump?
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I wouldn’t violate that with YOUR THANG.
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