President Biden is expected Thursday to sign his first executive order that will change an American pro-life policy into a pro-abortion one. Outrage is the early reaction among pro-life activists to Biden following in his former boss’ footsteps by letting American funds go once again to push abortions overseas. Biden’s becoming the latest Democrat to reverse the Mexico City policy that forbade that.
Concerned Women for America’s Penny Nance told CBN News, “It is incredibly tragic that the Biden administration has departed from the Trump administration’s position, which is in line with 75 percent of Americans who do not want their tax dollars to be sent abroad in order to fund abortion in other countries.”
77% of Americans Don’t Want This
Added Denise Harle of Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Life, “For the administration to want to be a champion of abortion is extremely disappointing. And it’s really out of step with what the American people want.”
And, indeed, that’s borne out by brand-new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll surverying done this month. Mike Conte of The Marist Poll said on a media call, “77 percent of Americans overall, a slight uptick from a year ago, as well as 64 percent of pro-choice Americans and 55 percent of Democrats oppose taxpayer funding to support abortions abroad.”
That percentage soars to 85 percent of Independents and 95 percent of Republicans.
Nance said of this overseas funding, “We’re talking a hundred million dollars in which our tax dollars are spent and U.S. policy is used to coerce other countries, poor countries, to adopt the most liberal policies on abortion.”
What this meant during the Obama years is if your nation wanted money for reproductive care, you had to align your laws with America’s pro-abortion laws and regulations.
Threat to Your Freedom
Pro-life advocates see this funding as taking away the right of American taxpayers to refuse to have anything to do with abortion.
As Harle put it, “It looks like a threat to freedom and it really looks like misplaced priorities when in fact there are issues of real healthcare that could be addressed and need to be addressed.”
She added, “The Mexico City policy protected taxpayers from their dollars – our dollars – going overseas to fund global entities that promote abortion. And if you ask Americans, we don’t want our taxpayer money going to electively end the life of unborn babies.”
It’s expected the administration and abortion supporters on Capitol Hill will soon go after the Hyde Amendment, which keeps federal tax dollars from being used for abortion here in the United States.
‘Got to Lock Arms & Push Back’
Nance exhorted, “American pro-life people, people of faith, have got to lock arms and push back.” She suggested one way people can do that is by consulting with Concerned Women for America at concernedwomen.org.
And Harle’s Alliance Defending Freedom has launched a campaign called Stand for Freedom which highlights ways Americans’ liberties and rights are being threatened. On the abortion front, this campaign points out Biden promised to make the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling into federal law and his administration will try to wipe out state-level abortion restrictions.
You can find out more at adflegal.org/adf-stand-for-freedom.
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