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mccain would have said anything for a vote, or had palin say it for him.
I am very disappointed by this decision.
The main reason I voted for Senator McCain was his pro-life stance.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/...a_abortion_ban
WASHINGTON – In a long-expected move, President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
Liberal groups welcomed the decision while abortion rights foes criticized the president. Known as the "Mexico City policy," the ban has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since GOP President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. President Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but President George W. Bush re-ins uted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.
The policy bans U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of U.S. Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the "global gag rule," because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.
The Democratic official and senior U.S. official who disclosed the plans did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt Obama's announcement.
Obama was expected to sign the executive order at a low-key event, one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
The move was not a surprise as both Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will oversee foreign aid, had promised to do away with the gag rule during the presidential campaign. Clinton is to visit the U.S. Agency for International Development, through which much U.S. foreign aid is disbursed, later on Friday.
Obama has spent his first days in office systematically signing executive orders reversing Bush administration policies on issues ranging from foreign policy to government operations. But, save for ending the ban, Obama has largely refrained from wading into ideological issues, perhaps to avoid being tagged a traditional partisan from the outset after his campaign promises to change "business as usual" in the often partisan-gridlocked capital.
Rather, Obama has chosen to focus initially on issues in which there is consensus across the political spectrum and support from the public, such as closing the prison camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to making government do ents more accessible.
In a move related to the lifting of the abortion ban, Obama also is expected to restore funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) at his earliest opportunity, probably in the next budget. Both he and Clinton made this a campaign issue.
The Bush administration had barred U.S. money from going to the fund, contending that work in China supported a Chinese family planning policy of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization. UNFPA has vehemently denied that it does.
Organizations that had pressed Obama to make the abortion-ban change were jubilant.
"Women's health has been severely impacted by the cutoff of assistance. President Obama's actions will help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, abortions and women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning," said Tod Preston, a spokesman for Population Action International, an advocacy group.
Anti-abortion groups criticized the move.
"President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.
mccain would have said anything for a vote, or had palin say it for him.
I think abortion should be legal and am perfectly okay with it as long as it's in the first trimester... but I don't think we need to be funding international groups for services.
thumbs down.
What is disturbing is that U.S. Taxpayers will now be funding abortions in Saudi Arabia, Mexico & Africa…
”Change we can believe in I guess”…
Obama kills black babies forum
Just the thought of that makes me sick to my stomach.
Family planning =/= abortions. A big part of family planning organizations is providing information on birth control and safe sexual practices, which is absolutely essential to women's health issues. Especially in poorer countries.
If President Obama plans to do only the above, then I have no issue.
I know that every life- those of people already born and those still in the womb- is precious to God and that He is going to hold us all accountable, accordingly.
That is crazy
shouldnt funding like this be the UN's job?
we should focus on our own ...we're in a recession, after all
Unless I've read the article wrong, we haven't actually funded a damn thing. All that happened was that a ban on funding was lifted. That's it.
when the levee breaks
*gags self*
Then what's your problem? Let "god" judge Obama accordingly and you worry about your own life instead of someone elses.
You guys were out voted. This decision will save millions of lives which out weighs the issue of abortion. The people that are already here are suffering. When you start adopting babies with HIV, I'll start listening to your stance on abortion.
What President Obama does is most certainly between him and Jesus.
That said, I will have to answer to God for whether or not I spoke out against wrongdoing or if I just stood silently by and let it happen.
I have no intention of doing the latter, in any cir stance.
I would love to adopt at some point.
I was adopted.
+1
staunchly pro-life, yet another reason that I'm disappointed that Obama won.
-Mars
Last edited by ClingingMars; 01-23-2009 at 03:17 PM.
What makes you so special that you know whether other peoples' abortions are morally wrong on a meta-physical level? Enough so that you'd condemn them in this life so as to save your own skin when you have to "answer to God." I hope God gives you the slap of your life(?) when you die.
so if you did just stand silently by, would that mean you would be denied entrance into Heaven? or would your mansion be a little bit smaller?
won.
-balli
It's called murder you ing bag.
-Mars
yeah I'm glad Obama one myself
+won
-Earth
No it isn't. What a deplorably simple, black and white, delusional world you've created for yourself mars.
so if a mom will die if unless the baby is aborted, which do you choose.
I know your answer, but I want to hear it any way because I like where these abortion threads go
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