Obama’s move, the latest in an aggressive first week reversing contentious Bush policies, was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by abortion rights foes.
The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.
“For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.”
Stale & fruitless...? Is this how a man who is self described as a man of HOPE looks at the struggle between life and death??? Or is it how he views the liberal side inability to conquer America on this issue???
How arrogant to use a phrase such as ‘stale and fruitless’ regarding the issue which will cause so many unborn children here and abroad to become just that: DEAD.
CHANGE, but no HOPE for the pre-born.