Saturday, January 24, 2009

Obama overturns Mexico City Policy -US tax dollars to fund foreign abortions

President Obama-the most pro-abortion president in the history of the US- has reversed President George W. Bush’s ban on federal funding for international groups that promote or perform abortions. Now US tax payers will fund the destruction of the unborn in foreign lands.

The ban is known as the Mexico City Policy because former Republican President Ronald Reagan first introduced it at a UN conference there in 1984. It was overturned by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and then reinstated by President Bush in 2001.
Obama's agenda includes the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion in the US.

Barack Obama has signed the order to shut Guantanamo on the basis that it is an affront to American values and the Geneva Conventions. He is concerned with the human rights of prisoners in Guantanamo. Yet he expresses a callous disregard for the human rights of the unborn child in the womb. He has sanctioned the provision of American tax-payers money to kill the most vulnerable-those who cannot speak for themselves.

Obama has pledged to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and other pro-abortion rights laws. FOCA would abolish existing minimal state and federal restrictions on abortion and would even threaten the rights of Catholic hospitals to refuse to perform abortions.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

JB:

I was actually surprised yesterday when President Obama ordered Guantanamo and any illegal CIA prisons that may be operating in Europe. I can understand why that would be considered a high priority.

I was very very shocked to see this occur today. However, I fail to see how or why funding for abortion should be considered such a high priority when there are people without any health care.

A MOMent of Sanity said...

Federal funding CANNOT go towards abortion either in the US or globally. The funds now can go to the other practices of clinics that perform abortion, abortion counseling or referrals. The money cannot, go to any of these services. The clinics have to show extensive money trails of the funding. IT DOES NOT FUND ABORTIONS. It funds clinics that practice maternal and contraceptive health. Under the Mexico City policy, if these clinics also provide abortions, abortion counseling, or referrals they got no money for the other parts of their clinic. If you don't understand the necessity of maternal health care globally, I strongly encourage you to find out more!

John Barry said...

On January 22, 2001, President Bush reinstated the "Mexico City Policy." This policy prohibits non-governmental organizations that perform and promote elective abortions from receiving federal tax subsidies for overseas family planning programs. Since its reinstatement, pro-abortion organizations have condemned the President and made misleading claims about the impact and effect of the policy. Moreover, opponents have introduced the so-called "Global Democracy Promotion Act" to overturn it.
(Source-US Conference Of Catholic Bishops)
Obama has now overturned the decision of President Bush.

Anonymous said...

I have learned that yelling doesn't help me make my point.



If the major source of contention is the grafting of ideological controversy onto an issue that enmeshes all aspects of women's reproductive health services, then perhaps finding creative solutions to untangle some of the services would be a less polarizing approach for the new administration to come out swinging with?

A 2004 RAND study indicates that US public support for women's reproductive health services internationally lags significantly behind domestic services and that this gap was growing. They further found disparity between public support for family planning services (without abortion) vs. abortion services.

http://tinyurl.com/as3wno

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My point remains:

As of 2007, the National Coalition for Health Care reports that 18% of Americans under age 65 were without health care coverage. This represents 46 million people. Since 2000, the number had grown by 8 million - an approximate 21% increase.

http://tinyurl.com/rl42w

Furthermore, 2008 saw approximately 2.8 million jobs lost

http://tinyurl.com/86pe2p

The White House has projected this trend to continue until at least 2010.

http://tinyurl.com/dzetlp