Officials: Obama to reverse abortion policy

yahoo news ^ | Jan 23 2009 | LIZ SIDOTI and MATTHEW LEE,

[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.

[anniegetyourgun]

Soon...and very soon.

[anniegetyourgun]

Meanwhile - this from recent reporting about the GOP:

"Rank-and-file Republicans are telling their leaders they want more ethnic, gender and age diversity in a party that is dominated by white males. They also want party leaders to cooperate with President Barack Obama, according to surveys."

[Red Steel]

They should only effect Executive Branch policy and regulations.

[malkee]

I’ll go with the first part of that, not the second.

[Sacajaweau]

Socialized medicine will lead to getting rid of the non-working folks on SS as a “burden”.

[rochester_veteran]

Although Obama tries to project himself as being a Christian, anyone who would work so hard to accommodate the abortion industry is not a Christian in my books!

If Obama signs FOCA, that’s a declaration of war against pre-born babies, Christians and Catholics and we must fight back and resist at all costs!

[shielagolden]

n January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. But less than two months later, Hitler was the nation’s dictator.

Many German Christians at first openly welcomed Hitler’s Nazi party to power as a historic moment of Christ’s work on earth through and for the Aryan “Volk.” A leading Lutheran theologian wrote in 1934, “Our Protestant churches have welcomed the turning point of 1933 as a gift and miracle of God.”

[vimto]

Wow, thank you for that - a great short film that packs a punch. I will distribute!!!!

May God look down with Mercy or how could we stand?

[jesseam]

What is so reprehensible is that obama takes my tax dollars to fund the murder of the most innocent of human beings. Our Founding Fathers would not believe how evil and immoral the government has become with the democraps.

[MrB]

If anyone will engage in the issue logically, they will be soundly defeated, so they avoid such a logical discussion where possible.

However, if you can get them to engage, ask them when life begins. If they state anything other than at conception, then you can ask how that moment is different from the moment before it.

If they refuse to state when life begins, they’re saying they don’t know, but are erring on the side of killing a human life.

Anyone that killed a hunting buddy because he shot at motion in a bush and didn’t know whether it was his buddy or not would be prosecuted for negligent homicide.

[lightman]

Told ya this would happen today -- so there's no video of the right to lifers in Washington to show on the evening news.

It's like BHO just raised a brown Washington-monument sized middle finger at the good folks who gathered yesterday.

[cornelis]

What you said.

[cornelis]

It’s two-faced: no torture, but killing innocents is OK.

[tutstar]

How much will God stand for?

[Blogger]

He has already started.

[malkee]

On January 30, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. But less than two months later, Hitler was the nation’s dictator.

Very scary.

[Coleus]

Activism Alert:

I thought we were in an economic crisis, a depression, when it comes to slaughtering the innocents; money is always available.

Obama to reverse Mexico City Policy - Measure will use federal tax dollars to fund international groups that promote and provide abortion

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[SuziQ]

Be sure to thank Catholics for Obama.

A heck of a lot of folks of other denominations voted for Obama, why should Catholics get the blame? I think any Catholic who voted for him was STOOPID, but I don't think they were a majority of his voters.

[wordsofearnest]

Not this Catholic or his family.

[teenyelliott]

Yep. Lefties won't put a child molester to death, but are okay with killing a child.

Protect the guilty, kill the innocent.