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highplainsdem

(48,988 posts) Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:06 PM Jan 2017

Canada to increase reproductive health funding in response to Trump decision

Source: CBC

Canada will increase its funding to international organizations that provide abortion-related services after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking American funding for those services.

In an interview with As It Happens guest host Helen Mann on Friday, Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau said the Liberal government would support a Dutch-led initiative to fund international programs supporting women's reproductive health.

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Asked if she was worried about angering the American government with her vocal opposition to their policy, Bibeau said she was not.

"Women's rights is too important for us to make a compromise on that," she said.

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Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.3955517/canada-to-increase-reproductive-health-funding-in-response-to-trump-decision-1.3955523

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Canada to increase reproductive health funding in response to Trump decision (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2017 OP

What a sad nation we are becoming. triron Jan 2017 #1

This makes me wish I could get the US's permission to travel scscholar Jan 2017 #2

What are you talking about? BainsBane Jan 2017 #3

And you have to get the government's permission to get a passport... scscholar Jan 2017 #6

That's true for every country on earth BainsBane Jan 2017 #7

Thank you Canada! potone Jan 2017 #4

If they can cover us until we regain sanity... susanna Jan 2017 #5

triron

(22,006 posts)

1. What a sad nation we are becoming.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:10 PM

Jan 2017

Thank ggodness for neighbors like Mexico and Canada.

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

2. This makes me wish I could get the US's permission to travel

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:10 PM

Jan 2017

We shouldn't have to ask for permission to leave our own country. That is very Soviet of our country.

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)

3. What are you talking about?

Reply to scscholar (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 27, 2017, 09:35 PM

Jan 2017

You need a passport, but you don't need permission to leave the country.

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

6. And you have to get the government's permission to get a passport...

Reply to BainsBane (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:49 PM

Jan 2017

so you do have to get the government's permission.

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)

7. That's true for every country on earth

Reply to scscholar (Reply #6)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:52 PM

Jan 2017

Passports are required to enter other countries. They aren't always checked when you leave a country.

potone

(1,701 posts)

4. Thank you Canada!

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 04:09 AM

Jan 2017

It looks like other countries are going to have to lead the way in all humanitarian efforts for the next four years, since even if Trump is impeached, we'll be stuck with Pence, who is even worse for women's rights, and probably every humanitarian cause.

susanna

(5,231 posts)

5. If they can cover us until we regain sanity...

Reply to potone (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 05:48 AM

Jan 2017

my respect and gratitude for them will be endless.

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