Clinton was pretty creepy too.
Posted on 01/22/2009 1:12:40 PM PST by NYer
DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a move to downplay his pro-abortion agenda, President Barack Obama has decided to wait a little longer to reverse a Bush policy preventing taxpayer funding of abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy prevents sending public funds to groups that perform or promote abortions in other countries.
The new president could either issue an order tomorrow or in the near future to reverse the policy or allow Congress to do it.
Obama was expected to overturn the pro-life policy on his first or second full days in office and to possibly do so today, on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
However, a CBN News report indicates Obama will not overturn the policy on a day that pro-life advocates mourn the Supreme Court allowing virtually unlimited abortions.
While Obama is still expected to fund foreign abortions at some point, CBN News indicates Obama is attempting to camouflage his pro-abortion agenda by issuing a statement calling for efforts to reduce abortions.
"It is unclear whether Obama intends to reverse the Mexico City Policy at some point in the future but this reliable source tells me that this move signals that Obama will stress the need for reducing abortions in this country rather than focus on the divisive tit for tat policy reversals of the past," writes David Brody a senior correspondent for the network.
The move may infuriate pro-abortion groups, which campaigned relentlessly for Obama and expected him to immediately reverse the policy upon taking over the White House.
At the same time, Obama could approach overturning the Mexico City Policy in the same manner as he is apparently approaching reversing Bush's limits on funding embryonic stem cell research.
Obama appears to want Congress to do the heavy lifting to pass legislation reversing the protections and he can both get credit for signing the bill and deflect criticism by not becoming the sole decision-maker changing the rules.
Such a move would also make it much tougher for pro-life advocates to undo the decision -- and Obama could also rely on Congress to reverse the Mexico City Policy.
In September, 2007, Sen. Barbara Boxer introduced an amendment to a spending bill that would have reversed the policy and the Senate approved it by a 53-41 percentage point margin.
The move didn't take effect only because President Bush threatened to veto any spending bill that removed the Mexico City Policy -- something Obama would unlikely do.
Clinton was pretty creepy too.
Keep praying everyone. Pray that Obama may be converted to treasuring life at all moments of life from conception to natural death.
In that case, we must help them overcome this primitive thinking and enter the modern age by making abortions cheap and plentiful.
Otherwise known as promoting genocide.
Atlas is Shrugging.
Hmm, I read that article too, and thought he had already signed it. Now, I’ve seen two articles that say he has not.
Why should tax dollars fund abortions period. It's total hypocrisy on the pro-abortionists' part. They scream about choice except when it comes to funding it.
This is what the minority Republicans should fight abortion on now - the funding. Since it's slim that any pro-life bill will pass a Rat Congress and WH, the GOP should start focusing on the money aspect of it.
I’m hoping prayers of millions of pro-life advocates keeps him from reversing these policies. Like others have said, I thought he had already reversed the pro-life policy. More prayers needed.
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