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Obama Overturns 'Mexico City Policy' Implemented by Reagan
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... or groups that offer abortion-related services overseas, even if funding for those activities comes from non-government sources. It essentially bars recipients of U.S. foreign aid from promoting abortion as a method of family planning. If organizations received government funding, they would "agree as a condition of their receipt of federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations." Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/International/story?... :applause:
International abortion hoo-ha
TigerHawk —
Barack Obama, like Bill Clinton before him, has reversed the "Mexico City rule," which prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions. I have to admit, I really do not understand why this issue so animates American supporters of lawful abortion. While I support lawful abortion (although not to the extent of Roe ), I also understand why Americans who are passionately opposed to abortion take particular offense to the use of taxpayer money to terminate fetuses outside the United States. If I were a right-to-lifer, this particular order of ...
And so it begins
Southern Appeal —
The Catholic Left’s take on President Obama’s decision to overturn the Mexico City Policy ? No big whoop:“This [Mexico City] policy will have scant effect on abortion rates , and yet the cultural warriors will gleefully raise this trivial issue as their standard. This tactics, combined with the typical inconsistency of those who espouse them, will only act as a roadbloock against true conversion on this issue . . . . [T]he United States is funding [the Israeli Army and its bombing of Gaza]. This is a grave scandal, far worse than the piddling amounts sent to abortion providers and counselors . And yet, nobody is talking about this, are they? Funny, that . ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Are the Democrats Anti-Baby?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
First, President Obama reversed the "Mexico City" policy , meaning that US taxpayers now are funding abortions overseas. Now, Nancy Pelosi wants to include birth control in the new "stimulus" package , because "the family planning services reduce cost" to the states(presumably, of people reproducing). Of course, it shows how the Democrats want to dump everything but the kitchen sink into the "stimulus" package (and in an era where contraception is cheap and available a multitude of places, it's not clear how the Pelosi Giveaway would affect birth rates, anyway). And certainly, in my view, there is nothing morally wrong with contraception (unlike ...
