Obama to Lift Ban on Funding for Groups Providing Abortions Overseas

Obama to Lift Ban on Funding for Groups Providing Abortions Overseas

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Yesterday there was a post that asked: Are you crying? I can answer with a very emphatic no!! I am too infuriated to cry.

So now if I am understanding this correctly Obama is taking "our"money and sending it overseas to provide funding for non-governmental groups that perform abortions.

I know most of you will say this is just politics as usual. I say maybe, but it sickens me to think this was one of the FIRST things he did in office. He wasted no time on that one! Which is further proof for me, who Obama really is.

How is a man that places no value on human life going to have mine or your best interest at heart? He's not!!

If I don't support this in my own country? Why the hell would I support it in another?

Interested to hear your thoughts.

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[edit on 01/12/2009 by paxnatus]

Amazing how people can scream bloody mary about a dead baby in Gaza but are eerily silent when it comes to abortions. No need to post graphic pictures on this one. The silence speaks for itself. IMO opinion Obama should have left this one alone.

It will be interesting to hear the justification from the Obama supporters for this move - if they would like to chime in.

I can't get your link to work in the same browser but if it talks about the same ban I have researched in other places...

This ban was essentially a back-door way to see that only abstinence-only groups got the funding.

On the ground level the definition of "abortion" was often perverted to mean any form of birth control, period. Religious groups grabbed on to that to say to men and women in the most Aids-ravaged places "You cannot use a condom, it is abortion.

Note the clip says that funding will be denied to a group that so much as discusses abortion, let alone provides it.

While I would have preffered to see foreign funding limited, I believe this is going to open the door to groups that can actually do something to prevent AIDS and overpopulation.

No, that's not exactly what's happening.



We are already sending money to overseas organizations, Bush simply banned funding for organizations that apparently even mentioned that abortion is available or gave advice about abortion.

This is not for organizations that "perform abortions".

Our national debt is climbing to unseen levels, our people are having a hard time meeting very basic needs & yet one of his first moves as POTUS is to send our money overseas to fund ending life.....


And this is different from any other adminstration how?????


What a lovely way of forcing tax payers into supporting abortion whether they want to or not.

Some links to support my position:

www.womensenews.org...
media.www.bgnews.com...

And that IMO is a big part of the problem. How does any POTUS expect us to continue helping other countries when we are failing in helping our own out of the nosedive the economy is taking?

I'm sorry, but this issue should of been low on the list of "must do's" because the only thing it accomplishes is appease pro-choicers & add to our ever growing national debt.

Thank you for that clarification. So this is for groups that offer abortion as a means of birth control or give advice regarding abortion as an option? Oh I see.

Is that better in some way? When you break it down it means EXACTLY the same thing. Bottom line, this is a precursor to overturning Roe vs. Wade
We'll probably see that decision by Fri. the 24th!!

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No, you’re not understanding it correctly.
I suggest you read the links provided by Asmeone2 as it seems the one you read misled you.

Edit:


And NO it isn't the same thing for heaven's sake!



Providing families with contraceptives is not abortion, nor is providing them with counseling on Family Planning.

peace

[edit on 21-1-2009 by silo13]

Just to clear things up, he's not authorizing any more funds than were already authorized.

Amount "X" which was available to only group A, is now availble to groups A,B and C...

The article does not clarify one way or the other. More organizations will be elgible for funding & that most likely means that more funding will have to be made available. (At least IMO, it will end up osting us all more)

YES. Sickening, isn't it?
Someone should sit him down and make him watch this -

YouTube Link

YES YES YES!!!

I have been so upset every since the first silent act of GWB when he entered office was to stop the aid to foreign countries which we support in birth control and pregnancy counseling.

This is a wonderful move on the part of our country. This will enable the genocidal maniacs to back off now... (They would rather wait until a fetus is 2 years old to rape and sodomize to clear their AIDS) Women and innocent young girls will not be having babies through rape, and again we can begin to make a real difference for our fellow man.

Thank you Thank you Thank you Obama!!!

Well, Barry is off and running isn't he. He surely wasted no time in pissing off a large portion of his constituency with this brilliant move.

I do appreciate the links. Here is the difference though, Clinton just like Obama
wants to take life, while Bush wanted to preserve it.

"This policy recognizes our country's long history of providing international health care services, including voluntary family planning to couples around the world who want to make free and responsible decisions about the number and spacing of their children,"

Well, shouldn't responsible couples make decisions regarding family planning and the number of children they want before they are pregnant, not after?

"Presidents Reagan and Bush further banned U.S. aid to international groups that use their own money to support abortion -
either through performing the surgery, counseling on abortion as a family-planning option, or lobbying foreign governments on abortion policy."

Ya see, I said it earlier How is counseling on abortion as a family-planning option not the same as the one who provides abortion?

The quotes were taken from your source asmeone2: bgnews.com

A baby take it or leave it! No big deal! Thank you, Barry!

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What part are you just refusing to read???



peace

So according to you the only upside of this is that women and young girls won't be having babies through rape. This doesn't solve the problem of indiscriminate rape and abuse of women and young girls now does it.

Try attacking the root cause of the problems/crimes instead.

Now we will see an influx of street side unregulated Coat Hanger abortion clinics all throughout Africa. But the rapes will still continue.