Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By (mostly old, white)Men
Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By Men
It seems like women might be interested in this policy too.
WASHINGTON ― On Monday, surrounded by other white men, President Donald Trump signed an anti-abortion executive order that has far-reaching consequences for womens reproductive health access worldwide.
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President Donald Trump signed three executive orders Monday in the Oval Office.
Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. It prohibits giving U.S. funding to international nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive health options if they include abortion ― even if U.S. dollars are not specifically used for abortion-related services.
The United States spends about $600 million a year on international assistance for family planning and reproductive health programs, making it possible for 27 million women and couples to access contraceptive services and supplies. None of that money is spent on performing abortions. The Helms amendment has prevented U.S. tax dollars from funding overseas abortions since 1973. Proponents of the global gag rule believe the policy is nevertheless still necessary, arguing that Helms isnt strong enough by itself.
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Trumps executive order has severe implications and could be deadly for women and girls in developing countries and conflict zones, who often resort to dangerous methods of ending their pregnancies when they lack access to safe abortion. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 21 million women a year have unsafe abortions in developing countries, accounting for about 13 percent of all maternal deaths.
The policy is rescinded and reinstated based on which party is in power. President Bill Clinton did away with it, President George W. Bush put it back and then President Barack Obama rescinded it again when he took office. Trumps Cabinet is more white and more male than any presidents first Cabinet since Reagan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-abortion-men_us_5886369be4b0e3a7356a7910
Freedomofspeech
(4,228 posts)and I'm damn sick of these old white men running the country. We baby boomers have ruined this country and the environment. I am so ashamed.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tgards79
(1,415 posts)This is a calamity.
niyad
(113,576 posts)here. I mean, it isn't like females are important or anything, right?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)It's that I expected it. As the article says, it flip-flops based on whichever party is in power.
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)That's just a little too crude and stupid!
How can they possible crowd together, rub their tiny hands, and conspire to keep any women from the physical burden, and incredible, life-long responsibilities foisted upon her by some lummox, maybe nearly brain-dead, maybe already married, maybe her father, uncle, brother, Jabba the Hutt, a serial killer, or, even worse, a politician?
Their brains and their souls are so limited, so unimportant, yet they have been making the rules, these little tyrants-in-waiting.
In time, they are STILL going to lose. Apparently they pray they'll die of old age, in their sleep, before women become free, as free as the men were when they were born.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)That was righteous!
I'm getting so burnt out...there's something about the lack of response to attacks on women's lives--removal of a woman's physical sovereignity...fewer rights than a corpse over our own bodies....
the collective outrage over denial of wedding rights or pizza shops.....while THIS gets the big yawn...
Over and over again, the big yawn.
Burns me out, I'm telling ya.
niyad
(113,576 posts)sheer frustration.
GUESS WHAT, YOU MISOGYNISTIC PRICKS--AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!
niyad
(113,576 posts)own OP for visibility and great writing--and so we can rec it!!