Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
President Donald Trump has expanded the Mexico City Policy, an executive order that prevents groups from providing abortion overseas with US aid money, and is now applying the order to all foreign global health assistance.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
By a vote of 240-185, the U.S. House approved an amendment on Friday that cuts off all federal funding of Planned Parenthood. The amendment, which is part of a measure to fund all government agencies through September 2011, now moves to the Senate where a decision will have to be made before March 4 in order to avoid a government shutdown.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) told a recent gathering of priests that during his meeting in March with Barack Obama, the president insisted he was not pro-abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A Pennsylvania Senator who refers to himself as “pro-life” received a stern letter from his bishop after he voted against an amendment that would have reinstated the Mexico City Policy, a law forbidding the use of taxpayer funds for overseas abortions that was overturned by executive order of President Barack Obama.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A representative of one of the group’s that will now receive taxpayer money from U.S. citizens to fund overseas abortions has publicly stated that the breakdown of traditional families is not a crisis but a “triumph for human rights.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A new Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s decision to overturn the Mexico City Policy that forbids the use of taxpayer money to fund overseas abortion providers.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
As expected, President Barack Obama rescinded the "Mexico City Policy", a policy which blocked funding for international organizations that practiced or promoted abortion worldwide, prompting swift reaction from the worldwide community.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Upon taking office in January, President-elect Barack Obama is planning to immediately overturn two executive orders put in place by President Bush that prohibit taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research and groups that perform or promote abortion in other countries.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A prominent bioethics lawyer says she believes Sen. Barack Obama’s plan to “spread the wealth” will ultimately mean taxpayer funding of elective Medicaid abortions as well as clinics such as Planned Parenthood.
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