Posted on 01/25/2017 8:48:14 AM PST by blam
The Hague (AFP) - The Netherlands on Tuesday called for an international fund to support health centres offering abortion services in developing countries, after US President Donald Trump ordered a halt to US government financing.
Trump on Monday signed a decree barring federal funding for foreign NGOs that support abortion, on the eve of the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalised the practice in the United States.
The restrictions prohibit foreign non-governmental organisations that receive US family planning assistance from using non-US funding to provide abortion services, information, counselling or referrals.
They are also barred from engaging in advocacy to promote abortion.
Lilianne Ploumen, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation, said the Netherlands must do everything in its power to offset the ban, in order for "women can remain in control of their own bodies".
"We have to compensate this financial setback as much as possible with a well-financed fund, in which governments, businesses, and social organisations will be able to donate," Ploumen said in a statement released late Tuesday.
She added that "banning abortion leads not to fewer abortions, but to more irresponsible practices in back rooms and higher rates of maternal mortality."
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The Dutch don’t just murder babies. They murder the elderly. and people with depression.
The Dutch military may be pussies but their social policy bureaucrats are efficient killing machines
SO eternally thankful my ancestors left that rat-hole of a country!
If the Dutch want to be known as baby butchers I’m OK with that.
We’ve been paying for abortions in THE NETHERLANDS??? Good grief! What other crap are we paying for in industrialized nations?? Good riddance!
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