Tweety, keep the campaign promises you SHOULD, like health care, but do not contradict yourself by de-funding Planned Parenthood and the UN Population Fund. Family planning is a security issue foremost. I know, that is a shock to you and your base, eh Tweety! But family planning and planned parenthood are healthcare issues as well as Security issues.
There are many reasons to fund the UN Population fund:
#1. National security - Americans and Tweety claim security is our #1 priority. Our security is weakened in the future if we ignore family planning in a continent that will soon become the #3 largest population on the planet after China and India. if African nations explode in population, the security of America can be threatened as people turn angry, then turn to terror to vent their hatred of a country that could so easily have helped them, that had amazing wealth to share, or they might hate America even out of pure jealousy.
#2 Diseases - No matter how tightly we think we can manage and control entry into the United States, disease can get to us from overpopulated countries EASILY. See cartoon above.
#3 Abortion - Is there a Christian motivation involved? Defunding United States Planned parenthood or the UN Population Fund are both ill advised, even foolish. The unintended affect in defunding family planning is to INCREASE ABORTIONS. The idea that family planning promotes abortions is absurd. No one WANTs an abortion. Avoiding pregnancy is the first line of defense against abortion, and it is unfair and silly to say the solution is abstinence coming from people who do not abstain, and can afford to get the "pill" or pay for a secret abortion. So why defund family planning?
#4 Education and #5 Illness - Defunding family planning leads to overpopulation, and most times women cannot seek the education they might seek when they are having babies; and young girls getting pregnant may succumb to more illness, not to mention the babies may be malnourished and end up a burden on the health care system.
#6 Unplanned Pregnancy Issues - young girls get sick, baby dies in uterus due to lack of health care, girl / woman raped by cleric, by dad, brother, uncle or many other men is forced to have a baby that will remind her of rape all her life, illness of the girl herself, lack of education, death of young girl having the baby . . . . . . The list goes on and on and is horrific, YET the de-funders DO NOT CARE! The de-funders are NOT HUMANE, absolutely NOT CHRISTIAN!
#7 Christianly / Christianity - I put this last because there is incredible hypocrisy among people who tout themselves as "Christians." I am sorry to say it, but I see too much cynical claims that I am more Christian than you, and then we find out the man or woman cheats on their husband, or stole people's money / investments, or grab pussies, or whatever. People claim they are Christians to fool us, to be better than the next person, to get money from us. True Christians help their brothers and sisters ALL THE TIME, in every way. Do NOT LOOK TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH for help. Look in your heart. Look into what makes sense as HUMANs. Troubles in Australia, New York, many places, show Catholic leaders can be very cruel, and careless about what is true Christianity. Even the Pope seems out of touch with reality at times. That Catholic church is too full of hypocrisy to listen to anything they say about family planning and abortions. Go into your heart and your spirit and recognize your "God" is good, kind, and caring, not seeking to limit help to people who need family planning.
In fact, ignore ALL organized religion led by HUMANs.
But is Tweety really Christian? I do not think he is Christian.
It is a shame I have to leave kindness and caring to last, but that is where is falls in the American culture in 2017, it seems, especially with Tweety supporters, and ultra-conservatives. White Privilege folks, is rampant in America.
So, the stupidest President choice is prevailing since April 2017.
"United States to Cut Funding to U.N. Population Fund Over Claims U.N. Calls ‘Erroneous’"
By Emily TamkinEmily Tamkin is a staff writer at Foreign Policy. She writes for FP’s The Cable, a real-time take on the news in Washington and the wider world. She has been at FP since the fall of 2016, before which she was an associate editor at New America, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington. She has a B.A. in Russian literature from Columbia University, an M.Phil. in Russian and East European studies from the University of Oxford, and studied Soviet dissidence in archival centers in Moscow, Tbilisi, and, on a Fulbright, in Bremen — all of which means that at FP, she writes when she can on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe., Ruby MellenRuby Mellen is a fellow at Foreign Policy with a background in TV, print, and digital journalism. Before coming to FP, she covered the 2016 election as a news associate at CNN in Washington, D.C., working on State of the Union with Jake Tapper. Prior to that, she was a politics fellow at the Huffington Post. She was born in New York and is a dual citizen of Belgium and the United States.
"UNFPA said in a statement Tuesday that the State Dept.’s decision was based on an “erroneous” claim, and said its “work promotes the human rights of individuals and couples to make their own decisions, free of coercion or discrimination.”
A State Department spokesperson pointed to the 1985 Kemp-Kasten amendment, which prohibits U.S. taxpayer money from funding abortion or forced sterilization anywhere in the world. That spokesperson noted that China’s family planning policies are coercive, and that UNFPA partners with China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), which is responsible for implementing China’s family planning policies.
However, some find the impetus behind the decision to be largely political, not legal."
Sad, and stupid to narrowly think every bit of help for family planning goes back to an abortion. But abortions will increase and women will die BECAUSE of the reduced funds. Sad.
