Obama ends ban on federal funding for abortions abroad

[ericire12]

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/23/obama-to-sign-eo-authorizing-aid-money-for-abortions-today/

    President Barack Obama will sign an executive order later Friday ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that promote or perform abortion, officials said.

    It is a move certain to please liberals and other abortion-rights advocates, and the reversal was expected in the Democrat’s first week as president.

    The so-called “Mexico City policy” has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since Repulican President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. President Bill Clinton then ended the ban, but President George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.

By noon, the broadcast networks have their evening news well planned, and Americans as a rule go out to socialize.  It’s not called the graveyard of news cycles for nothing.

It seems significant that the first such Friday afternoon news cycle of the Obama administration gets used for authorizing American tax dollars for abortions abroad.  We’re spending a trillion dollars that we don’t have now for an economic stimulus that will likely make the economy worse as we pull capital out of the markets.  With the federal budget deficit exploding to three times its previous size, thanks to the bailout, why should Americans pay for abortions overseas?

[tombogan03884]

 I've got no problem with it. It's cheaper to kill the little America haters at -6 months than at +20 years.

[fullautovalmet76]

Well he is following up on one of his campaign promises. He clearly belongs to the culture of death.

[tt11758]

Interesting how the offspring of an unwed mother is so staunchly pro-abortion.  Can you say "irony"?

[ericire12]

Interesting how the offspring of an unwed mother is so staunchly pro-abortion.  Can you say "irony"?

I say he was the one that got away.

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[philw]

I say he was the one that got away.

for how long though

[tombogan03884]

for how long though

He didn't become Pro abortion till after HE got born.

[deamonpi]

I've got no problem with it. It's cheaper to kill the little America haters at -6 months than at +20 years.

most of those people end up being eaten by their brethren in Africa or caught in a landslide in Guatemala.

[runstowin]

American tax payers helping to pay for the murder of innocent babies in their mother's womb, the blood is on our hands.

[twyacht]

Tax dollars at work. The gov't sure is generous with the "people's" money. This is the same group that remarks the 2nd half of the TARP money, (which is "our" taxpayer money),  should be distributed responsibly to those needy companies....

"Our money" whether we agree or not on abortion, is just the Gov't becoming involved with another part of society which can be handled in the private sector fine.

Carter started this, Reagan rescinded it, Clinton restarted it, Bush 43 rescinded the order, now BHO. catering to his leftists.

Don't ya just love it???