Sunday, January 25, 2009

obama and obortions

President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services. the policy says any organization receiving us family-planning funds from the us Agency for International Development cannot offer abortions or abortion counseling. He defended his action, saying, "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortion or actively promote abortion."The group Population Action International praised Obama's move, saying in a statement that it will "save women's lives around the world.""Family planning should not be a political issue it's about basic health care and well-being for women and children," the group said."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." How do you guys feel about Obamas prohibition of the funding of abortions threw tax payer dollers. I have a concrete question to this issue how will prohibiting tax payer dollers help to reduce unintended pregnencies? can some one help me understand because this seems like an anti obortion policy.

1 comment:

David said...

Well, I'm definitely no expert, but I believe that Obama is saying that the government is not going to be involved, it is up to the locals with this one. The Bush administration was always really boneheaded when it came to the whole accidental pregnancy thing. You can't just say "don't have sex ever unless you want a baby and you're married" that will never happen, you have to teach people how to safely have sex even if they aren't married and if they don't want a kid.