UGLY image! UGLY! Will we one day see women signing an Exec Order banning men's reproductive rights?
"Trump reinstates ban on US funding for abortion overseas"
By Jessie Hellmann - 01/23/17 11:58 AM EST
Sociologically thinking, wondering how this "America First" nationalism, as it spreads to the world's countries, might lead to more bad than good. Hyper-nationalism means conquest and imperialism usually.
It is possible it can lead to hot and cold wars, trade wars, and a greater divide between rich and poor of the world, thus civil wars and revolutions. Be aware folks! Beware!
Tweety Twump might be against abortions, I understand that. I hope he is not against family planning, including use of condoms. The latest Executive Order bans too much, but maybe that is good for American women, I don't know. This sort of EO can lead to more abortions worldwide, but saves money for Americans. So right, f**k the world's poor people, right! America first!
"Gag me: Trump's anti-abortion executive order"
By Laurie Garrett
Updated 8:36 AM ET, Tue January 24, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/opinions/global-gag-rule-backlash-garrett/index.html
"Laurie Garrett is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. The opinions expressed in this commentary are hers.
(CNN)Here we go again. The bad old days of United States foreign assistance are coming back, now that President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule on overseas discussion of abortion by individuals and organizations receiving federal funding. We have been here twice before -- under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and we know that this order often backfires, leading to increased abortion rates.
Since 1973, under the Helms Amendment, it has been illegal to use US government money to directly fund abortions overseas. The global gag rule, introduced by President Ronald Reagan in 1984 as part of his Mexico City Policy, made discussion of abortion by a group receiving federal support for any purpose illegal."
""The United States does not consider abortion an acceptable element of family planning programs and will no longer contribute to those of which it is a part," read the rule. "The United States will no longer contribute to separate nongovernmental organizations which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."
Implementation of the global gag rule went well beyond abortion to effectively limit all discussions of family planning, including condom use to prevent HIV infection and multiyear spacing of pregnancies to avoid maternal deaths. Organizations as diverse as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and Family Health International lost millions of dollars in support from the US government during the years the gag rule was enforced."
But it is an ugly image to see all men deciding about women's bodies. I know, there are many anti-abortion women, but where were they when this EO was signed by Twump?
"Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By Men"
It seems like women might be interested in this policy too.
01/23/2017 01:23 pm ET | Updated 1 day ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-abortion-men_us_5886369be4b0e3a7356a7910
