Posted on 12/26/2020 12:00:26 PM PST by xomething
Inauguration Day and the weeks that follow should be a time for the new president to unite the country and build an agenda that crosses party lines. Unfortunately, it seems Joe Biden plans to take the opposite approach, having promised to immediately rescind the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, better known as the Mexico City policy.
As millions of Americans are hurting because of the coronavirus, Biden appears hell-bent on cancelling an extraordinarily effective and life-giving policy. President Ronald Reagan originally enacted the Mexico City policy to ensure unwilling American taxpayers didn’t fund overseas abortions. Every Republican president since Reagan has promoted the policy, and President Donald Trump expanded it, applying it not only to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department but to other agencies distributing foreign health assistance, like the Department of Defense. This significant change means that billions of taxpayer dollars are protected from paying to promote and subsidize abortion internationally every year.
Unfortunately, Biden can eliminate this pro-life policy with a stroke of a pen. During the Democratic primary, his campaign promised, “Biden will use executive action on his first day in office to withdraw the Mexico City global gag rule.” Vice President Kamala Harris wants to go even further and pass legislation permanently repealing the Mexico City policy. This level of commitment to funding abortion everywhere is, frankly, ghoulish and should concern Americans regardless of political affiliation.
Even abortion supporters don’t think the government should be promoting and funding the practice abroad with the tax dollars of pro-life Americans. A bipartisan majority of Americans reject Biden and Harris’s radical approach to the exportation of abortion, as 75 percent oppose funding overseas abortions with taxpayer funds, including 61 percent who identify as pro-choice.
Despite the need to focus our dwindling resources on families here in our pandemic-battered economy, Biden wants to endanger unborn babies in countries that should self-determine their values.
It is a cruel act of political expedience to dangle abortion over the head of a needy world. Abortion isn’t health care. At-risk communities across the globe stand to benefit from the safety net and companionship that comes from having and raising children. Heaven forbid the United States endorse and fund a program that destroys lives and weakens communities, which is exactly what reversing the Mexico City policy will do.
Biden justifies repealing this popular and life-giving policy by claiming it hurts global public health, even though all the evidence shows the opposite.
A State Department review of the Trump policy shows that only eight of 1,340 primary grant awardees declined health care funds because of the abortion prohibition—proof the policy doesn’t curb critical health assistance in remote parts of the world. “In most cases in which a recipient or sub-recipient declined to agree to the terms of [the Mexico City policy], USAID and/or the prime partner successfully transitioned activities to ensure the continuity of global health assistance,” reads the report.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement the report is evidence the policy doesn’t inhibit the United States’ ability to provide much-needed health care and testing to those in third-world countries. “This review reaffirms that the United States can continue to meet its critical global health goals while protecting life abroad through its global health assistance programs,” he said. “The U.S. government is committed to protecting life, the unborn, and the dignity of the human person.”
A misguided Biden administration would foist a harmful package deal on other countries at the expense, and against the wishes, of American taxpayers. But the return and expansion of the Mexico City policy under the Trump administration was proof positive that it’s possible to defend the unborn and their mothers while also advancing health and well being around the world.
Isn’t the Vatican and majority of American Bishops staunch biden supporters, and urging the laity to do likewise?
Just asking.
Yes they are.
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They don’t seem to be that upset that Joey helps butcher babies,blacks and the poor....He seems to be at ease with Planned Parenthood and so are the bishops at the USCCB......
The democrat party serves the interest of the abortion lobby for the same reason they have ruined public schools by kowtowing to the unions -
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I have been encouraged by the trend on abortion in the last decade. More and more people see it for what it is, but Biden will not see this. The DNC is addicted to the money. We need to remain addicted to “life” because our message is resonating.
Reasons like Trump being pro-life is why the dems had to cheat their way into power...If we are going to kill babies,TRUMP NEEDS TO GO......
What??
Joe Biden is trying to cheating his way in. Blatantly. Lifesite thinks he won’t move into Chinese style forced abortions
Republicans failed to defund Planned Parenthood in 2017 & 2018 when they controlled both houses of congress, even though Trump also supported it.
Instead of blaming the Democrats for standing up for what they believe, how about going after Republicans for not standing up for what they believe.
If the Republicans aren’t going to defund Planned Parenthood, what makes you think the Democrats will?
Selling your soul for Biden. Pitiful.
The two most evil industries on planet earth are the abortion industry and the vaccine industry
both are specialists it causing harm and death
The abortion industry’s SOLE purpose is to murder innocent human beings
The vaccine industry is primarily Do gooders from hell
Both care mostly about profits , but that is not evil in and of itself
We don't have a Republic anymore.
The4se types of articles are silly since we all know the communists are not listening to us and will force abortions on everyone.
God is going to intercede here.
This is a clear case of an evil, secularist empire, vs. a nation under God.
Evil can’t triumph in this scenario.
I have not yet decided what pleasures democrat leftists more. The actual killing of babies, or forcing those who abhor the practice pay for killing babies?
I often wondered if Conservatives took the opposite approach and determined that abortion stops many future liberal voters if liberals would stand against the practice.
In a socialist country, none of the CommieCzars give a flying flip what you want or think.
Those who force the people of God to put their hands unto iniquity, if they do not repent, are going to have an extremely unpleasant encounter with Him on the day of judgment.
Liberal fascists took nuns to court THREE TIMES to try to force them to pay for birth control and abortion.
Did you ever get a polio vaccine? How about a flu shot?
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