Sources: Obama may quickly reverse abortion policy

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/19/obama.abortion/index.html

By Suzanne Malveaux
CNN White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama is considering issuing an executive order to reverse a controversial Bush administration abortion policy in his first week in office, three Democratic sources said Monday.

Obama's second full day as president falls on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States.

The sources said Obama may use the occasion to reverse the "Mexico City policy" reinstated in 2001 by Bush that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family planning groups that promote abortion or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion services. It bans any organization receiving family planning funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development from offering abortions or abortion counseling.

The "Mexico City policy," commonly referred to by critics as "the global gag rule," was devised by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 at a population conference in Mexico City.

This was one of the more ridiculous policies, imo.

I hope he still has time to DO. :shrug:

Day ONe.

won't be at the inauguration tomorrow.....they will already be working.

Barack is going to be a very busy man!

with us always. The corpses, the disabled, the million or so Iraqi refugees, the damage to the environment, the financial losses, the resentment built up against in the world, especially the Muslim world. Our grandkids, maybe our great grandkids will still be dealing with them. I cannot wait until noon tomorrow.

:thumbsup:

The degradation in this area under Bush has been scary.

You've got your work cut out for you reversing the insane dictates of King George.

The Intertubes have the hiccups tonight.

On his first day in office, Bush moved to block federal aid to foreign groups that offered counseling or any other assistance to women in obtaining abortions. Days later, he announced his commitment to channeling more federal aid to faith-based service organizations.

It was the first thing Chimpy did when he took office. Un-doing Chimpy's very FIRST action as pResident will certainly be an enormous symbolic and practical gesture.

other countries? Isn't that up to the other country to decide? Or am I misunderstanding?

Now they just won't get punished for including abortion as an option.

This is the SECOND time that a Democratic President has had to reverse this particular policy. It's great (and expected) that Obama would reverse this crazy policy but I hope that somehow the Democrats and Congress can get this (and a few other policies) passed into a permanent law that cannot just be undone with a stroke the next time (god forbid) a Republican gets back into the WH.

:bounce: