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2021-01-31 Home Front: Politix

Biden Signs Executive Order Allowing the U.S. to Fund Global Abortions

[National Review] President Biden signed an executive order Thursday afternoon reversing the Mexico City policy, permitting U.S. aid money once again to fund groups that provide or promote abortion around the globe.

The policy was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in an effort to ensure that taxpayers were not required to indirectly fund abortion procedures performed in other countries. The policy has been undone via executive order by every subsequent Democratic administration and reinstated by each Republican one.

The Trump administration expanded the policy to include not only family planning funds distributed by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development but also all foreign-health assistance provided by government agencies, including the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and the Defense Department. That expanded policy, "Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance," increased the amount of U.S. funding covered by the abortion prohibition from about $600 million to nearly $9 billion.

Abortion advocates and interest groups in the U.S. oppose the Mexico City policy; Planned Parenthood, for instance, has labeled it a "global gag rule." During the presidential primary, the Biden campaign promised that his administration would undo the policy and permit U.S. aid money to fund abortions.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-31 02:30|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 As expected. The question I don’t recall seeing asked or answered: how much abortion business do those overseas clinics get when fully funded as opposed to not funded?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-31 16:32|| 2021-01-31 16:32|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ I will call Bill & Melinda tonight. Global overpopulation is their hobby. They keep track of this sort of thing. They'll be able to quantify it straight away.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-31 16:36|| 2021-01-31 16:36|| Front Page Top

#3 U.S. to Fund Global Abortions

As opposed to just bombing?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-01-31 16:38|| 2021-01-31 16:38|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^ That certainly might cut into the MIC's turf.

Posted by DooDahMan 2021-01-31 17:02|| 2021-01-31 17:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Abortions must be good for the climate or they wouldn't be pushing them so much. Abortion means less mouths to feed I guess.

Posted by jpal 2021-01-31 17:39|| 2021-01-31 17:39|| Front Page Top

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