Posted on 01/23/2009 10:38:33 AM PST by malkee
In a long-expected move, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option, officials told The Associated Press on Friday. Liberal groups welcomed the decision while abortion rights foes criticized the president. Known as the "Mexico City policy," the ban has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since GOP President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. President Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but President George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office. The policy bans U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of U.S. Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the "global gag rule," because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method. The Democratic official and senior U.S. official who disclosed the plans did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt Obama's announcement. Obama was expected to sign the executive order at a low-key event, one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
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Our country is supposedly in a horrible depression. I know. Let’s give money overseas to woman that want to kill their babies. Why didn’t I think of that? It’s absolutely brilliant!!/sarc.
That was my first thought.
The blood of innocents will be on their heads. God will sort them out some day.
Looks like Michelle Obama and her Planned Parenthood cronies are running this administration.
Increases protections for terrorists, decreases protection for babies.
What a monster...
Your tax dollars at work.
This is why we can openly hope that obama is a failure. //disclaimer:It’s not racist
I guess obombanation really is not black enough to serve as President or else he's trying to cut down on future completion.
And people wonder why the economy will worsen. Typical obozonomics demoncRAT ineptitude at work. Murder upon command!
I think this is because 0bama has a tremendous amount of self-loathing ... and I thought I loathed him enough for everyone.
So does this.
Obama can’t have her punished with a baby.
Be sure to thank Catholics for Obama.
We knew this was coming down.
It’s now down...and gonna get worse until it all blows up in their faces.
Wait, maybe our funding abortions in Mexico will cut down on illegal immigration. Or maybe it will encourage more pregnant Mexican women to come here and drop anchor.
Whatever, I should not be forced to pay for it, and certainly should not be forced to pay for it abroad.
Taxation without representation.
I find all these executive orders more than a bit uncomforting in the sense that is the president supposed to submit his ideas to the legislature for a vote? I was of the understanding that executive orders were used as a last ditch effort.
Can you be “a little bit pregnant”?
There you will find the answer to the question “when does life begin”.
Obama is urging Congress to postpone analog to digital television broadcasting, yet the killing of the helpless and innocent must continue without haste.
Obama can now boast of his own Surge effort.
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