Obama Funds Overseas Abortions With Taxpayer Money
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ January 25, 2009
In one of his first acts as President, Barack Obama lifted a ban on the taxpayer funding of abortions done abroad. According to FOX News, ”Obama signed the executive order one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all 50 states.”
That’s right. On January 22, millions of pro-life activists came to Washington, D.C. for the annual “March for Life” which continues to peacefully protest the Roe v. Wade decision made 36 years ago. Since that court decision, more than 45 million American lives have been aborted. But for pro-abortionists like President Obama, allowing women the “right to choose” just isn’t enough.
On just his fourth day in office, and just one day after millions of his fellow Americans came to Washington, D.C. to urge Obama and other elected officials to consider the rights of the unborn, the President signed an Executive Order lifting the ban on the U.S. taxpayer funding of abortions done overseas.
Many are already criticizing the action. Some of the harshest criticism has come from the Vatican. According to the Associated Press, “Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama’s decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them.”
Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, said in an interview published Saturday in Corriere della Sera that “if this is one of President Obama’s first acts, I have to say, in all due respect, that we’re heading quickly toward disappointment.”
“This deals a harsh blow not only to us Catholics but to all the people across the world who fight against the slaughter of innocents that is carried out with the abortion,” another top official with the Academy for Life, Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, told the ANSA news agency. “Among the many good things that he could have done, Barack Obama instead chose the worst,” he was quoted as saying.
As we pointed out in our book, Who is the Real Barack Obama?, Obama tried to position himself publicly as having a “nuanced” position on abortion. But his record is anything but nuanced. Obama was the most pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of the Presidency. His first week in office has already demonstrated he is willing to take extreme and immediate action to further the pro-abortion cause, by his funding of abortions overseas with this Executive Order. In a nation facing economic challenges and over $1 trillion in debt, Obama thinks its ok for taxpayers to fund abortions of non-Americans abroad.
He has also said in the past that he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act if it comes to his desk. The Freedom of Choice Act would overturn ANY federal, state, or local restriction on any abortion - including (but not limited to) partial birth abortion and parental notification for abortions on minors. To raise your voice against any further pro-abortion activity by President Obama, you can learn more information here.