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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Trump Ends U.S. Funding of Overseas Abortions

This is certainly reassuring for those of us who were alarmed by Trump’s praise for Planned Parenthood during the primaries. Taxpayers will no longer be forced to fund abortions overseas:

The so-called Mexico City policy, established by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1984, blocks federal funding for international family planning charities that provide abortions or “promote” the procedure by providing patients with information about it, including by offering referrals to abortion providers. …

President Obama rescinded the policy when he took office in 2009.

This morning Trump signed an executive order rescinding Obama’s rescindment of the policy. Every step toward erasing the Moonbat Messiah’s baleful legacy is in the right direction.

Trump’s ban could impact foreign organizations like the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPFF), which provides family planning services in more than 180 countries. …

The 2016 U.S. budget included $607.5 million in funding for reproductive health internationally, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion…

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why the HELL where we paying other countries abortions UNREAL.

Anonymous said...

We have a huge budget defecit. Why are we funding this at all?

Anonymous said...

Netherlands started a fund to counteract our withdrawal of funds. So it'll still happen, but we'll keep the thing everyone cares about most $$$

Anonymous said...

Good job

Anonymous said...

Overseas abortion is part of the big picture to decrease the population in poor countries in what the Dems quietly refuse to acknowledge as a eugenics policy. Of course maybe they think it the better choice than starvation in some of the world's ugly places.

Anonymous said...

For at least the first 4 years of his presidency we'll be hearing all kinds of crap that Obama was doing.

Anonymous said...

I wish they would have invested a little more money in Kenya when Obama was conceived.

Anonymous said...

Keep our good earned money in the USA , just tell them to pull out.