U.S. TAXPAYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS ABROAD

INDER OBAMA US TAX PAYERS WILL FUND APORTIONS ABROAD.OW IST'T THATA CUTE ON THE PART OF OBAMA??


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Obama’s ‘Change’ Likely to Include Funding Abortions Abroad
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer




President Bush and President-elect Obama walk along the West Wing Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, prior to their meeting in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)(CNSNews.com) – The “change” that President-elect Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail will likely include overturning President George W. Bush’s 2001 executive order to prohibit the use of federal tax dollars for performing or advocating abortion as a means of family planning in foreign countries, Obama’s transition team has said.

“There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we’ll see the president do that,” John Podesta, head of Obama’s transition team, said when he appeared on “Fox News Sunday.”

One of those executive orders is the Mexico City Policy, or as critics call it, the “global gag act,” a U.S. policy first put into place at an August 1984 Conference on Population in Mexico City by President Ronald Reagan.

The Reagan policy required all non-governmental agencies, or NGOs, that received population aid dollars from the United States to agree to not perform or actively promote abortions.

In what has become a partisan tradition in the first days of both Republican or Democratic administrations, President Bill Clinton removed the order shortly after taking office in 1993, and Bush reinstated it on Jan. 22, 2001.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, told CNSNews.com that Obama has backed the pro-abortion agenda throughout his political career.

“And when he’s in the oval office he will nullify (the Mexico City Policy), and the result will be hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars going to organizations in developing countries that promote abortion,” Johnson said.

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has publicly criticized the policy, saying it limits abortion counseling even in countries where the procedure is legal.

In the 1980s, International Planned Parenthood-London, and Family Planning International Assistance tried but failed through court challenges to reverse the policy.

As a U.S. senator, Obama has backed proposed legislation to reverse the Mexico City Policy. After he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, his advisers are predicting the swift reversal of this and many other Bush executive orders, including the ban on medical research that creates and then destroys human embryos to harvest stem cells.







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Ned Reck at 08:33 PM - November 11, 2008
I am going to look at this from a pure, pragmatic point of view. "President-elect Obama, are you going to use my hard-earned money, confiscated in the form of a criminally harsh tax-burden, to spend on promiscuous people in foreign countries, who will gladly terminate their unborn to continue to indulge in their irresponsible and undisciplined life-styles?" If so.... NOT WITH MY MONEY.

HuldahPost at 06:01 PM - November 11, 2008
All Pro-lifers were humbled and devastated by the results of the election. I, for one, just didn't understand why God would not give us one more chance to change the direction of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, and how He could allow such a deadly minded man to elected. But, today, maybe after 4 hours of sleep, I realized we have been asking God to stop abortion. We have been asking God. So, when does God reveal His hand? After taking out those who do not want to fight, those who lap up water verses those who use their hands, and when those He helps ARE IN THE MINORITY and it would take a MIRACLE to achieve the objective. Pro-lifers unite again--Tell God this is unacceptable to us and we will fight the fight if HE GOES BEFORE US-not john mccain, or sarah. Give thanks and praise for His VICTORY for life. Give the house, the senate, the SCOTUS, the white house, all into His hands, to do according to HIS will. So Be It. Thank you, Father.

dixieedd at 05:54 PM - November 11, 2008
the bible says that you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears,and if this guy is a true christian i am from the planet jupiter!

wileysnakeskins at 02:07 PM - November 11, 2008
Obama claims to be Christian, but a true Christian following Christ would and could never take part in the factual murder of millions of unborn human beings as have done all those who claim to hold so much love for their fellow man as do the democratic party leaders and advocates of a woman's choice in the person of her bodily functions. MURDER, MURDER no matter how accomplished is still MURDER, even it you do it to your own offspring. I wait for the judgment day when Jesus will ask of those who voted for it, took part in it, and advocated it, what have you done? The great blessing of his election being proclaimed right now will soon stick in the throats of those who were too blind to see the truth when it was everywhere for them to discern how false his proclamations were all along. God watch over us in this time of trial and the biggest mistake the country and it's voters have ever made; let not our culture, peace and democracy fade away in this time of trial.

stebbe at 01:53 PM - November 11, 2008
Dear Obama and those who voted him in, "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Consider strongly and repent before you further declare 'Open Season' on the unborn.