Posted on 09/10/2007 12:12:06 PM PDT by Between the Lines
The U.S. Senate has lifted a ban to provide family-planning aid to overseas organizations that promote or perform abortions.
In a vote 53-41 last Thursday, the senate reversed current U.S. policy restricting aid to abortion groups in favor of using taxpayer’s money to support overseas health groups which include abortion as a method of family planning.
“Once again, this Congress is threatening to abolish long-standing pro-life policies that protect preborn children,” said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action, in a statement.
Earll added, however, that “Thankfully, once again, President Bush is standing in the way with a veto threat. As the president has demonstrated in the past, he’s willing to use his veto pen to defend pro-life policies, and for that we are grateful.”
The overturned measure is known as the “Mexico City” policy – named after the location where it was first announced by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984 at the United Nations International Conference on Population.
Under Reagan, the United States said it would no longer fund nongovernmental organizations that violated the international agreement for nations not to use family planning assistance fund to support groups that include abortion as part of their family planning.
The policy continued as law from 1984 to the present, except for an eight-year gap during the Clinton administration. President Bush, a strong advocate of the policy, reinstated the policy by executive order in his second full day in office in 2001.
“I will veto any legislation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage,” wrote Bush to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in May.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) had sponsored the failed amendment to restore the Mexico City Policy in the $34 billion Foreign Operations spending bill.
Congress must achieve a two-thirds majority in order to override the president’s veto.
Your pro-life ping list may have some choice words for the aforementioned Senators.
What two Republicans voted for this? I’m glad Bush finally found his veto pen.
Patrician white liberals vote to kill poor brown children
Dog bites man
And what color will the beneficiaries of being ripped apart in the womb be? C’mon say it Hillary, they’re BLACK aren’t they?
Where it is in our Constitution that states: The King shall tax its citizens and send it treasure to foreign lands?
what was the role call on this?
How would Romney and Giuliani react to this situation?
Another outrage against the unborn and pro-life taxpayers.
As far as I can see, this is just posturing at this stage. If Brownback introduced a bill to support the Mexico City policy, he must have known that the present senate would not support it. And the pro-aborts know, on the other side, that their bill will not become law.
Of course if hillary is elected, the situation will be back to what it was with her husband, who reversed Reagan’s Mexico City policy on his first day in office by Executive Order.
FWIW, Snowe and Collins are doing no significant damage here while pleasing their liberal constituents, since they and the Republican senate leadership know that the bill has no chance of passage. If hillary gets in, then their votes would be consequential and the heat will be on them. Hopefully that won’t happen.
I really loathe those two mega-RINOs. Unfortunately that’s all we can get from Maine.
The Senate wants to export death eh? Boy what happened to LIFE, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? I though these rights were given to us by our creator? No one, not even the senate has a right to take innocent life. Without life, all other “rights” are meaningless.
Perhaps we need 2-4 years of a total Dem government in DC before people become motivated enough to force change.
Where it is in our Constitution that states: The King shall tax its citizens and send it treasure to foreign lands?
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Good point and now even the most skeptical can see HOW MUCH CAMPAIGN MONEY COMES FROM OVERSEAS SOURCES.....the reach of the likes of the Clintons is very wide-spread.
Another result of a Dimocrap Congress.
Just more money in our elected theives hands which are covered in the blood of the most innocent.
And the thing that is the most arrogant is that the money theves theives give away comes not from their pockets but from the pockets of the tax payers who have no say at all in where these theives give our money.
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