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Ok, so lets start off by making sure everyone is clear on exactly what the action of reinstating the Mexico City Policy actually means.
The Mexico City Policy prohibits foreign aid from the U.S. to be given to any nongovernmental organization (NGO) abroad that discusses abortion as a family-planning option. Currently, taxpayer dollars cannot be used to fund abortion procedures in other countries, but the order expands that oversight and also prohibits organizations from receiving U.S. family planning funding if they offer abortion counseling or advocate for abortion rights in other countries — even if the medical procedure is legal in that country.
The rule has gone back and forth between Administrations since it was first introduced in 1984 at the U.N. International Conference on Population held in Mexico City. In 2009, former President Barack Obama revoked the ruling as one of his first executive actions. It had been reinstated by former President George W. Bush after Bill Clinton's Administration and was first introduced by former President Ronald Reagan.
The policy requires non-governmental organizations to "agree as a condition of their receipt of [U.S.] federal funds" that they would "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations".
The policy has exceptions for abortions done in response to rape, incest, or life-threatening conditions.
Historically, the policy, when in effect, has applied to foreign NGOs as a condition for receiving U.S. family planning support either directly (as the main – or prime – recipient of U.S. funding) or indirectly (as a recipient of U.S. funding through an agreement with the prime recipient; referred to as a sub-recipient). Foreign NGOs include:
-international NGOs that are based outside the U.S.
-regional NGOs that are based outside the U.S.
-local NGOs in assisted countries.
President Trump has updated the policy by directing the Secretary of State to implement a plan that expands the policy across all global health assistance funding. This means that U.S. taxpayer dollars will not be supporting organizations that promote or participate in the management of a coercive abortion program. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), for example, is one such organization, with its long history of supporting China’s one-child population control program, an agenda that has included forced abortions.
The Mexico City Policy does not reduce U.S. foreign assistance; however, it does ensure that those who partner with the United States in providing international aid act to safeguard that abortion is not performed or promoted.
The policy does not prevent U.S. aid from being used for birth control and family planning services overseas – only abortion and its promotion are not subsidized.
SO what does this mean?
It means that Thanks to President Trump, the Secretary of State is directed to ensure Americans are no longer complicit in violating the dignity of women and children overseas. No longer will abortion be a top U.S. export.
No Longer will the US fund Forced Abortions on Chinese women due to the one child law.
Lets be clear, this is about international foreign aid going to other countries to pay for abortions.
What exactly does this mean for American Women Today?
I have been reading information from both sides and the one thing I find consistently is the liberal media insisting on spreading the idea that the Policy restricts aid for family planning services. This is Absolutely False information.
What I cannot find, is how exactly this directly affects the Womens Health Programs in our own country.
Women still have access to abortions if they choose, no rights have been changed. Women still have access to contraceptives, health screenings, family planning services, and counseling.In the future, Taxpayer funding will always go to those services, as long as abortions are not what we are paying for.
Abortion will remain legal up to 20 weeks, if you have not figured out your plan after being 5 MONTHS pregnant, then unfortunately you are going to have to figure something else out, like adoption, or sucking it up, taking responsibility and being a parent since you didn't decide to prevent it.
There are allowances for rape, incest, and medical conditions that threaten the life of the mother so that arguement is nonsense especially when only 2% of abortion cases are due to these circumstances.
Women are in an uproar about having the right to kill babies that can live outside the womb after 20 weeks, and losing taxpayer funding to force Chinese women to abort Female babies or their 2nd child because it is illegal.
Is this really what Women are standing for these days? Or are they just grossly uninformed....
And...for the record, Roe V Wade will remain, regardless of the Supreme Court choices. If that happens to be proved false, then and only then, is there an excuse for US women to rally and March about abortion rights. Tearing up our cities over a foreign aid policy is senseless. These people gained nothing but a mental participation trophy, and lost nothing when it comes the their rights.
If anyone has a question about where I stand on this subject, I am Pro-Life, but I do understand the extreme circumstances women go thru too well. My first born child was conceived under circumstances I do not wish to share, but fall under this catagory. He is Now 20 and just amazing!
