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IcyPeas

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19. Donald Trump, halfway digested circus peanut and our new president....

Reply to JustinL (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 06:53 PM

Jan 2017

Although the 1977 Hyde Amendment already prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions, President Ronald Reagan chose to increase those restrictions in 1984, with the introduction of this policy, also known as the Mexico City Policy, which allows for exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, and if the mother’s life is threatened. Since then, presidents have played a kind of partisan hockey with it: Bill Clinton repealed it; George W. Bush replaced it; in 2009, Barack Obama repealed it again.

Practically, it is brutal for women’s health: the rule forces NGOs to choose between accepting federal funds for family planning, but being forced to exclude any mentions of abortion in their care, or find alternative sources of funding.

http://theslot.jezebel.com/trump-to-reinstate-global-gag-rule-banning-ngos-from-r-1791512471

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Donald Trump Reinstates Ronald Reagans Abortion Global Gag Rule [View all] JustinL Jan 2017 OP

Women do not need to have a right over their body, men need that right Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

Republicans: yewberry Jan 2017 #2

Now the US can go globally with it's all out crusade for the survival of the fetus meadowlark5 Jan 2017 #3

Done on the advice of "Ayatollah Pence" no doubt. justhanginon Jan 2017 #4

About 40,000 legal abortion/year and safeinOhio Jan 2017 #5

When the End Times come, American fundies who love Israel expect all the Jews to either convert or Hekate Jan 2017 #10

But, we could withhold safeinOhio Jan 2017 #11

These idiots want a higher population. SCVDem Jan 2017 #6

They want a higher WHITE population? They must be ignoramuses to the max progree Jan 2017 #21

As expected. The thing is a political football until we get a solid majority in Congress Hekate Jan 2017 #7

What?! Clinton wasn't really almost as bad as Trump? !! yardwork Jan 2017 #14

These are the same people who always complain (dog whistle) about high birth rates in the 3rd world tenorly Jan 2017 #8

I keep reading there are 250 million women in the world without access to modern contraceptives progree Jan 2017 #20

Not enough. Absolutely. tenorly Jan 2017 #24

Pig! Orange Pustule Hitler. MarinCoUSA Jan 2017 #9

GOP gives the world,,,, Cryptoad Jan 2017 #12

or more bdamomma Jan 2017 #13

Keep this kicked. Don't ignore it. This is what electing Trump caused. yardwork Jan 2017 #15

Such a dick ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #16

The same pen that signed TPP withdrawal signed this. joshcryer Jan 2017 #17

Yup ismnotwasm Jan 2017 #22

Trump is more concerned with forcing you to have babies bucolic_frolic Jan 2017 #18

Donald Trump, halfway digested circus peanut and our new president.... IcyPeas Jan 2017 #19

Population projections already being revised upward. Seriously progree Jan 2017 #23

Trump being a big man!! NOT riversedge Jan 2017 #25