A legislative proposal to re-instate the “Mexico City Policy” so eagerly renounced by President Obama in his first week in office:
Congressman Chris Smith was joined by Congressmen Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Bart Stupak (D-MI) and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), in introducing H.R. 708, aimed at restoring the abortion-neutral Mexico City Policy. This 25-year old guideline establishes a wall of separation between abortion and family planning by ensuring that U.S. international family planning funds directed to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) could not be used to actively promote or perform abortion as a method of family planning…
…”One of President Barrack Obama’s first acts in office was to issue an executive order to allow U.S. taxpayer money to flow to groups that perform abortions or actively work to overturn pro-life laws all over the world,” said Smith. “It’s a sad statement about his list of priorities. With Americans facing an economic crisis the likes of which we’ve not seen in generations, he chooses to enact a policy that will redirect funds to foreign organizations promoting and conducting abortions.
“The Mexico City Policy represents common ground,” Smith said. “It has allowed the US to substantially fund international family planning without padding the budgets of radical groups intent on spreading the scourge of abortion. Under Mexico City policy, funding for family planning was not reduced one penny. The President’s decision will shift U.S. funding from true family planning programs to programs that provide and promote abortion with little or no regard for the sovereignty of democratic nations that oppose abortion as a method of family planning.”
One does wonder – why this ardent desire on the part of the pro-abortion fanatics to have US taxpayer money pay for abortions and abortion advocacy in the Third World? Why does the entire United States have to be dragooned into supporting such a thing? And why, if they think it such a worthy object, have they not tried to get public funding of abortion passed through Congress?
Well, because abortion in an inhuman horror and even its proponents are nauseated by what they do…unfortunately, the human stomach can put up with a lot, so the clear violation of all that is good and true which is involved in each elective abortion doesn’t move proponents to change their ways, but it does make them run an hide and seek the dark, nasty corners of American life to do their dirty work. Working to abort more brown-skinned babies in the Third World is in keeping with Planned Parenthood’s original goal of reducing the number of “inferior” children, while it also is something which can be done, for the most part, outside the glare of publicity which follows abortion in the United States…after all, the Chinese government very conveniently prevents anyone from filming a forced abortion in China…abortion proponents can get on board with this and as most people won’t know about it, they can still be accepted in decent company in the United States. Nothing like being nasty and invited to A-list parties in Manhattan and Los Angeles, huh?
Some have said that conservatism has to ditch the life issue, or at least radically de-emphasize it. That is all a load of bull, of course: conservatism is pro-life, or its not conservatism. Period. The reason for this is tied up in what conservatism is conserving – Judeo-Christian civilization, which places a supreme value on the individual human life. Ditch that, and what you have left might be a lot of things, but conservative won’t be one of them.
We do need a reworking of strategy in the pro-life movement, but the ultimate thrust still has to be full speed ahead towards an eventual ban on this hideous practice.
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