And you know it's amazing to me that Anti-Women Anti-Choice Clinic Creepers don't at least have the common sense to understand the country is moving in the opposite direction from their Gestapo type mindset.
Obama lifts abortion-related funding rules for foreign aid groups
Family-planning advocates praised President Barack Obama's move to allow funding to international groups that provide abortions, saying thousands of women's lives would be saved.
BY MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy News Service
WASHINGTON -- President Obama signed a memorandum Friday that ends a prohibition on supplying federal family-planning funds and contraceptives to international aid groups that provide abortions, abortion referrals or abortion counseling.
Obama's move came a day after the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights Supreme Court ruling of 1973, and an annual march in Washington to protest the decision. Abortion opponents were critical of Obama's order, while abortion rights groups said it could help prevent millions of unintended pregnancies worldwide and save thousands of women's lives each year.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called Obama's move ``welcome news to the poorest women and families in the world.''
Obama's order followed a series of economic and national security meetings on Friday, as well as calls to several world leaders and a morning event where Obama emphasized his desire for bipartisan solutions to the economic crisis. He was to spend at least part of Saturday in another White House meeting on the economy.
