rssObama Repeals Ban on Global Abortion Funds
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 5:52 pm
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For eight years, the United States has observed a policy that few Americans outside the reproductive rights community probably knew about: International groups that provide abortions — or even counseling on the procedure — have been barred from receiving federal funding.
Today, that ban ends.
This afternoon, President Barack Obama signed an executive order repealing the restriction, known as the “global gag rule” or the Mexico City Policy. And women’s health advocates and some Democrats are jubilant. From Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) statement:
Women throughout the world can breathe a sigh of relief and gain access to a full range of family planning services. The Global Gag Rule prevented organizations that receive U.S. assistance from spending their own privately raised funds to provide legal health care services to women. That policy was clearly a violation of basic freedoms. This is a new day for women –- President Obama’s action will save thousands of lives as women throughout the world get access to healthcare they desperately need and want.
Just yesterday, Boxer introduced legislation to overturn the gag rule. Obama’s executive order means there’s no rush to passage.
7 Comments
Comment posted January 23, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
What family planning services? This is infanticide services, on our dime, and to foreign countries, in the middle of a recession! Obama is truly a piece of garbage!
Comment posted January 24, 2009 @ 12:11 pm
“Gag rule”??? I don't want to fund abortion or abortion counseling anywhere, much less overseas! This is MY tax dollars, it is NOT evil to use them here, in this country, for things that I agree with and that are not spiritually repulsive! The US government does a lot of things that I'm not excited about funding, but the murder of children and the counseling to murder children is high on my list of unacceptable things for me to pay for. No one is gagging anyone, I don't want to fund those “family counseling services” which counsel death, let someone else pay for it. It is NOT the purpose of American tax dollars to do that.
Comment posted January 25, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
I didn't want MY tax dollars going for Bush policies. So you are just going to have to grin and bear it as we Democrats have had to do for the last 8 years.
The gag order kept clinics not only from dispensing advice about abortion but also for anything to do with contraception, even condoms. As a result women are getting pregnant over and over, raped women had no recourses, disease was spreading, including AIDS, and even some women died in childbirth because of no treatment.
So much for what your “spiritual” values ignored. Mine involves giving help to everyone and letting them deal with their reproductive rights as they feel their conscience and relationship to God allows.
Our Government cannot set policies that will please every citizen in every issue. I for one, am happy to see a president who is really truly pro-life since he represents those alive who need help, and stem cell research for those who are sick, and no war that kills people, over the despot that just left office. A bigger hypocrite has never existed before.
Comment posted January 25, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
Another bailout! Only this time it's the abortion industry.
Obama has enabled the white supremicists from the West to assist in the genocide of third worlds. What a guy!
Comment posted January 26, 2009 @ 11:18 am
Abortion should be jettisoned from politics completely. no pro this or pro that, these people just want their GOD or Civil Rights platforms or hate (White Minority). I am against murder of any kind by any one and once we get done with cleaning up all of our flaws as people we can start to judge other people.
Comment posted May 3, 2009 @ 2:55 am
I don't think that people should be a pro abortion.
Comment posted May 3, 2009 @ 9:55 am
I don't think that people should be a pro abortion.
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