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One of Donald Trump’s first moves in the White House strips women of abortion rights

January 24, 20171:27pm.
 

US President Donald Trump has signed an order that could restrict women across the world access to safe abortion.

The new President reinstated the Mexico City policy as one of his first moves in the White House.

The policy enforces a ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions or promote the option.

That means any US federally-funded aid group or other non-government organisation can’t assist with, recommend, give advice or provide any information when it comes to the emergency termination method.

Even without the ban in place, US-funded programs and health clinics don’t perform abortions — that’s already ruled out — but they can provide information about the option. Now with the ban, if they really want to do that, no matter who pays for it, the US government will cut them off.

The policy also prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalise abortion or promote it as a family planning method.

 

The ban is a blow to reproductive rights but it’s one that’s been seen before. It’s become something of a political football, ruled in and out by successive Republic and Democratic administrations since 1984.

But the setting in which the new President chose to stage its reinstatement has abortion activists outraged.

Mr Trump signed the executive order in the Oval Office, surrounded by men.

 

With his Vice President and staff looking on, the President sealed the deal on the “global gag rule” — there didn’t appear to be any women alongside the president when he did so.

The timing was also significant. Mr Trump signed the order after the January 22 anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that legalised abortion in the United States. The date is traditionally when presidents take action on the policy.

The policy has been instituted by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since it was first introduced in 1984 by Ronald Reagan.

Most recently, former president Barack Obama ended the ban in 2009, and Mr Trump of course made it a priority to move against it.

The ban isn’t expected to decrease the number of abortions completed in developing countries, but health and activist groups say it is expected to restrict access to safe abortions and undermine the viability of groups that provide contraception and family planning options.

The World Health Organisation estimates 21.6 million women a year have unsafe abortions in developing countries, accounting for 13 per cent of all maternal deaths.

The decision follows marches staged around the world that saw millions of women gather to protest Mr Trump’s election.

One of the primary concerns of women who were marching was the threat to their reproductive rights that arrived with the new administration.

Mr Trump has not moved on abortion within the US since arriving in the White House on Friday, but he previewed his views on the subject in the lead-up to the election.

In an interview in March last year when he was yet to be officially granted presidential candidacy, Mr Trump suggested there should be “some sort of punishment” for women who obtain abortions.

In a letter to pro-life organisations in September 2016, Mr Trump outlined his views on abortion including “nominating to pro-life justices to the US Supreme Court” and “defunding Planned Parenthood”.

His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, campaigned on “defending women’s rights to make their own health care decisions”.

During debates, her pro-choice view was ridiculed by Mr Trump, using graphic language to describe late-term abortions which he argued his opponent would advocate for.

“If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby,” he said.

Ms Clinton slammed Mr Trump’s “scare rhetoric” and said what he described was “not what happens in these cases”.

Critics suggested the statement showed Mr Trump had a misunderstanding of how abortion works in the US.

Locally, advocacy groups are expecting an “all-out assault on family planning and abortion” this year as rolling back women’s rights has been put back on the agenda of conservative American leaders.

As news.com.au reported recently, the US has seen a spread of “fake” abortion clinics, which advertise the service only to lure pregnant women into their doors and convince them not to go through with it. In extreme cases, women are beginning to turn to “self-abortion” as a last resort.

In the US, legislation around abortion is controlled at a state level rather than federally.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/one-of-donald-trumps-first-moves-in-the-white-house-strips-women-of-abortion-rights/news-story/0b958833c3356ad3a00b785a6bfc21ef

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Regarding the part of the story that says: "The ban isn’t expected to decrease the number of abortions completed in developing countries, but health and activist groups say it is expected to restrict access to safe abortions". --- This "restrict access" idea is what Texas tried to do, and might have been able to, if Scalia had not died right before a Supreme Court case about the Texas restrictions. --- It is weird that Scalia even died in Texas: Could he have been murdered (by untraceable poison in his morning tea) by a "women's rights" fanatic who worked at the remote Texas resort where he was staying, and who could not imagine having her "right" to murder her own children (in her womb) from being taken away from her? --- The Senate was able to block Obama's replacement for Scalia, so that Trump can now appoint a replacement who can work toward a Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade.

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--- Regarding the part of the story that says: "The World Health Organisation estimates 21.6 million women a year have unsafe abortions in developing countries, accounting for 13 per cent of all maternal deaths". --- Note that the W.H.O. cares not a whit for the deaths of the children murdered in abortions. 100 per cent death rate for the children. --- Also, no one is forcing the women to get abortions, whether "safe" (for them only) or not. They are the ones electing to murder their own children, and needlessly putting themselves also in danger of dying. So that is the problem: Their own wrong choice, not any lack of funding for abortion charnel houses.

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Regarding the part of the story that says: "The decision follows marches staged around the world that saw millions of women gather to protest Mr Trump’s election". --- How evil can you get: Women marching for their "right" to murder their own children.

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Hopefully, This is this apart of a comprehensive plan to cut off or reduce the ever flowing tap of foreign assistance monies that we have been pouring into the world for such a long time. These countries around the world who thumb their noses at us, while sucking in the money from our coffers has got to stop. Especially since much of the world is dead set  on messing up Israel, because they ant to take the easy road out and attack a people who won't blow up their citizens instead of standing up to the terrorists states around them.

What the U.N. did last month was to show the world that Nevil Chamberlain is not dead. We aught to send every country who signed that and also send President Obama an umbrella to let them all know we recognize cowardice when we see it. After that, we should cut off their aid and stop anything to do with the U.N. Send them packing and lets see what other country will step up to sponsor them.

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Quote: " health and activist groups say it is expected to restrict access to safe abortions "

Typical Leftist spin. Whenever somebody attempts to do something that is morally right, they point out the dangers that it will present to those that are doing something morally wrong.

They did it with homosexuality when they claimed that cutting funding to AIDS research will result in the deaths of more practicing homosexuals. It's the same old story, the nihilistic Left claiming some sort of moral high ground while they wallow in a moral sewer.

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this is not stopping abortions it's just stopping me for paying for it.

All those who think it's terrible should donate to those who are doing it and leave me and anything God might do to reward them in negative ways to those responsible.

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