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It seems ironic to me that Obama and his supporter are so worried about the rights of the terrorist who want nothing more than to kill all of us, oh they go on about the way these poor prisoners have been treated but when it comes to helpless unborn babies it's ok to kill them, water boarding well now that's just mot exceptable for murderers and such but helpless little ones that is our choice what about the babies choice who will stand up for their rights, and you people who say well abortion that's not for me but I can't make that decision for others they have the right to chose, think about what your saying, it's like saying well personally I wouldn't kill someone but if you want to do that it's up to you, any decent society has laws to protect the innocent it's not a matter of choice it's a matter of right and wrong and a lawfull society that protects it's people born and unborn.

Dear Gordhammer,

Hate to break it to ya' buddy...all of your doom and gloom prophecies have already come true under the Bush administration. So, go on a rampage about something else if you feel inclined to write another novel on a blog space.

CJ

Very well said.

Paying for abortions and health costs for other nations is just a start for what we will be paying for under Obama's administration. Add on the Global Poverty Act which Obama co-sponsored in which $65 Billion a year will be added onto what we already contribute to other countries. This same money being given to the United Nations who spent $23 million on the Geneva U.N. building for ceiling art.

Folks, NO one wants abortions! But making abortion illegal – not funding it – forcing it underground - will not make it go away.

Women will, just as they have for millenia, choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term.

Here's what I don't expect you care to remember: Before Roe v. Wade, women in the US were having abortions, and dying of those DIY procedures. Roe v. Wade wasn't made to kill; it was made to save lives.

Unfortunately, this noble goal has been perverted by conservatives over the years, in their effort to make it appear as if they are "pro-life". They are in fact only pro-life with respect to lives they can conveniently characterize as 'innocent'. Real, complex, 'dirty' life – whether it be that of a mother undergoing a back-alley procedure, or that of a death row inmate – is not worth preserving – despite those lives being equal in the eyes of God to any – ANY- other.

Want credibility? Get consistent. Pro ALL life, even lives you don't agree with. Till then- please spare the rest of us, trying to muddle through with admittedly imperfect decisions in the real world, your pompous, pious, self-righteous bluster that doesn't work in any world.

I thought most abortions are Black people....I thought Obama cared for his race and wanted them to excell and become better people for their race.......I can't see this happening if they are encouraged to kill their children....It looks as if he is enjoying his girls and thinks the world of them.....Why would he want any less for his race that voted him in office........

Appropriate Sex Education & Free Contraception would go a long way to resolving many of the "unwanted" pregnancies both home & abroad.
A question for all these Pro-Lifer's – who is going to look after, protect and take care of these unwanted babies, once they arrive.
Wouldn't it make more sense to STOP unwante pregnancies BEFORE they happen!
My tax dollars pay for a war I do not want or support – Adults are being murdered EVERY day too, but there's not such a fire storm about that!

Empty people voted for an empty suit January 23rd, 2009 3:47 pm ET

Why not explain what it is about CNN? OK, I will.

It will alow for our tax dollars to be used for paying for abortions ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

This coming from he only Senator 9and that includes Diane Feinstein) WHO WAS AGAINST the Infant Born Alive Protections act, the ONLY ONE.

But he also is the "messiah" who said he would not want one of his children being burdened with a "mistake" if they got pregnant.

Congratulation to the other 48 percent who saw through this.
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And Bravo to the other 52% that don't give a crap what the right thinks or wants!!!!!

While I am all for abortion, I don't think this was the right time to do this. We need to keep our tax dollars at home right now, and that means everything from military aid going to Israel to providing abortions outside the US needs to be stopped. When the economy turns around, then we can help the world, but right now, we have to improve our own borders. I am also disappointed that the government does not have the people vote on such a controversial issue, since it is suppose to represent our majority opinions. I agree with Mobius 100%

Joyce in Indiana January 23rd, 2009 3:45 pm ET

Before the pro-lifers go crazy, understand that this does not provide your tax dollars to abort babies. It simply allows tax dollars to go to international groups that provide information about abortions as part of their family planning and women's health activities.

Since I know that someone will comment that they don't want "their" tax dollars to go to pro-choice clinics, I will add my two cents. I am a pacifist, and I don't want any of "my" tax dollars to go to fighting wars or capital punishment or schools that use spanking as discipline. See how well that works?!
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Well said Joyce. Bravo!!!

It's either that or White Phosphorous, take your pick.

When everyone who is against abortion adopts an unwanted child then they can speak. Nobody wins and it costs tax payers more money in the long run to bring a child into a situation (or the world) where they are unwanted, unloved, financial unsupported, etc.

Thank God and thank you Mr President. It's been a really long time since our leaders have shown logic. Thank you for respecting my rights as women rather then the religious right and their agenda.

I look at it this way, when the religious right starts feeding my children, then they can have something to say about my decisions in such manners. Until then, they can worry about their own pregnancies as well as their un-wed daughters pregnancies and keep their religious agendas out of my medical records.

Those who do abortion should be offered the choice to do sterilization so that it is not done regularly. Killing of an unborn child is not a slight thing. It is very serious and counselling should be given before abortion as well as help in case the person chooses to keep the child.

How can you call yourself Christian and be pro-choice? Don't give me any BS about separation of church/state. This country was founded on God, morals, and values and should continue to be based on this. Unfortunately, Obama and the left-wing nut jobs that are Christian by name are supporting abortions. AND yes, any abortion that happens because of this executive order, will be the responsibility of President Obama. If that funding were not there l(ike the last 8 years), many abortions would not now be taking place and we (as a human civilization) would not be murdering innocent children because of our inability to avoid temptation.

What a sad day for this country and this president.

Finally after 8 years of Bush's corruption and dictatorship, President Obama acting swiftly, and working for people, Think about McCain, OMG, thanks God.

Maybe if there weren't so many unwanted children, there wouldn't be so many homeless and poor. I think it's high time for legislation to restrict the number of children any family can have. Overpopulation means more pressure on resources, overcrowding of hospitals, too much demand on the health-care system, water shortages, destruction of the environment,.... All of this means a reduced quality of life for everyone. The true pro-life position should be the one that is concerned with quality not quantity.

Most of the money goes toward PREVENTION, cutting off the entire funding because you do not like where 10% of it goes is ridiculous and only tortures and kills the helpless women who have no way to prevent the pregnancy in the first place without organizations like Planned Parenthood, and if they cannot have the child, the deserve to have a safe place to go, without judgement, without lectures, where they can choose what they need to do for their own bodies.

Thank God for Obama.

He is going to ruin us

GOOD JOB BARACK!! WOMAN HAD A RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND WILL BE JUDGED BY GOD NOT THE RIGHT WING REPUBLICAN PARTY!!

Thank you Mr. Obama. This will save countless lives by furthering the cause of preventing disease and unwanted pregnancy.

This is a SUCH a pressing issue....and non-political...just what the country wants! We need to spend money on overseas abortions. I can't think of ANYTHING more important...less partisan than this.

Apologies for being legalistic, but Roe v. Wade didn't legalize abortion. It found it unconstitutional (illegal) to restrict a woman's right to have one. To say a court case 'legalized' abortion would be like saying the constitution 'legalized' freedom; it just recognized what our society recognizes as universal rights. Also, Roe v. Wade hasn't been the law on abortion in at least 15 years. In a common law system we rely on precedent, and Roe was the first case in a succession of cases regarding abortion. You should be quoting Penn. v. Casey as the law on abortion. Sorry, but its an important issue for the media to be so imprecise on.

I am very please that Obama reversed the global gag rule. The countries are receiving the money anyway, they were just not allowed to discuss abortion options with women. It is still the woman's choice. Besides, I would much prefer that my tax dollars are going to help women make a choice in their life, rather than spending billions of dollars on "Just Say No" and watching the increase in babies (teenagers) having babies. So for everyone that is crying about your tax dollars are you saying you would rather pay for the support of an unwanted child for 18 years.

and I suppose that those of you outraged at the decision by our president...were all outraged at every innocent death caused by the last administration in Afghanistan and Iraq...

It's a new day, so everybody hold onto your seat. Obama isn't done fixing what's wrong.

"And he did it in secret! So much for "transparency in government" and fiscal responsibility. Which campaign contributor is he paying off with this move?"

Since it happened today and we know about it, I'd say it isn't much of a secret.

The dollars being used to murder the unborn could be better used to help the homeless and the poor in our country. I object to the overturning of this policy.

Change Americans can't believe in!

Abortion or killing tiny babies for convenience

Universalism or all ways or no way – is all the same

Pandering to terrorists

Increasing the deficit ++++++++++++with no good plan/reason

Leaders with no moral center

Just to mention a few PBO changes

I was overjoyed to hear the loud chants O-bama at the inauguration but then it struck me -do to choice 43 million babies were silenced-their crys heard only in the womb

Let's finally work towards some solutions about abortion this is my proposition for a reasonable solution:

-All partial birth and late term abortions are totally illegal – at this point there is no debate that the fetus is an alive human being that can feel pain
-2nd trimester abortions can only be allowed in case or rape, incest, and the health of the mother
-1st term abortions will be left up to the various states to decide if they should be illegal there.

Is this not reasonable. Pro-choice and Pro-Life people won't be totally satisfied with this but I feel like this would be a step in the right direction.

Lori January 23rd, 2009 6:53 pm ET
I am pleased that President Obama did this. I can tell you that in my travels to various countries across the world, women in developing countries have many reasons for wanting abortions (poverty, family violence, rape, incest, etc.). Unless you are in their shoes, you should not speak for them.
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Lori, thank you for your insight. I agree with you as one who has also travelled and met many women and young girls who have been mistreated sexually in ways that many people who have never travelled outside the United States could not even fathom as day to day reality. Well said, mon ami!

Well said Jimmyp!

If you are pro-choice can you please explain this to me; why should the tax money of those who consider abortion to be murder be spent on abortion? If you personally are OK with abortion fine, but why take my money and use it for what I consider murder? Let's keep government out of this completely. Laws are one thing, funding is another.

If this would mean that only Liberals were aborted I would be all for it.

This has NOTHING to do with the war, it is apples and oranges.

And for the geniuses who use the "how can you be for the death penalty and be pro-life" talking point, let me see, babies INNOCENT, murderers GUILTY.

No bible thumper here, so save that talking point. I served my country proudly and simply believe that killing a baby as a matter of convienience is MURDER.

Rape, incest or if the Mothers life is in danger is a whole other matter,

If you are against abortion, don't have one.

Thank you Mr. President. Finally a reversal of that outrageous policy which was dangerous and totally ineffective.
To those who cry about "unborn children" : If you are pro-life, how come you support war and death penalty ?

'With the science we have today we know that life begins at conception. Those cells (if left to develop) will never be anything other than a human being.'
The origin of life is still controversial to SCIENTISTS, religious folks have already made their point of view but not the scientist. This believe of yours is endorsed by those who oppose stem cell reasearches besides abortion, but it's a belief.
NOT A SCIENTIFIC FACT!
And this it's not (yet) 'a nation of me me me' as you have put it. But if we start to impose the beliefs of a portion of the society on all of the society where will we end? A nation of MY beliefs are better than yours so SHUT UP cause you have NO RIGHTS AT ALL to go against them!

I think the issue here is not whether abortion is evil or not, but whether we should force people who *do* believe abortion is wrong to have their tax dollars spent on it.

Even though I'm pro-choice, just as I resent having my tax dollars spent on a war in Iraq that I believe to be unjust, I understand how people would object to having their tax dollars spent on abortion, and therefore I'm not certain we should be spending federal money on something so controversial. If people believe very strongly in abortion access, they can donate money voluntarily to support that cause instead of advocating spending others' tax money.

"women dying from high-risk pregnancies because they don't have access to family planning"

Why is that the US's problem that "High risk" adults are having sex??

How about funding the children and adults in the US who don't have a home and stop paying for any other countries problems. If people die because the population is to large or are having to many kids ever think that the world is telling us something?

Thank you mac!!! I am anti-war and pro-life. I recognize that there are children out there that are born into a tough existence (poor health care, education, etc.). I recognize that the mothers of these children face extreme challenges.

What is baffling to me is that the "pro-choice" solution to these challenges is to KILL the unborn child. That is wrong, regardless of how many times you say the words "freedom" and "right" and "liberated woman" (the list goes on).

For the record, I am in favor or abortion when the medical provider recommends it as the only alternative that will spare the life of the mother when both the mother and child are in danger.

This is very pleasing. You are not a viable person until well after the first trimester. There is no magical wizard in the sky and these clumps of cells will never know the difference. They are not people yet. Thank you President Obama. Progression, intelligence, and logic will prevail.

Great – all women around the world should have a CHOICE.

For many of you that choose to support those in Gitmo that have wished to kill Americans that they should not so much as have anything more than their name, rank, and ssn asked of them, but as far as a baby that can't defend itself let's give people information on how they can rid themselves of that unwanted trouble by killing it and do it tax payers expense.

Sound hypcritical????

People, we are not talking about the United States. Whether you like it or not it is legal. This applies to THIRD WORLD countries who are not as educated or advanced. In most cases the programs are the only type of education provided. Their goal is to prevent unwanted pregancies.

To A Gordhammer, being a little dramatic, are you not?

Mac @ 4:56 "Maybe all the money spent on abortion and pro choice should be used to help educate and support these unwanted children." That is what this policy does, it provides money to help educate these women in third world nations, not just providing abortions.

"Why is it easier and cheaper to adopt foreign children than our own? " It is not easier nor cheaper. As a women who recently adopted a child, foreign adoptions are MORE difficult. Most countries have suspended their adoptions to the US. They also have age restrictions, income restrictions, etc. Also, the average foreign adoption costs over $20K. That does not include travel expenses to an from the country. My husband and I adopted a child within the US from an open adoption agency. Our total cost was $12,500. The process was long and it took us nearly 2 1/2 years.

Mac:

"science tells us life begins at conception"

Nice little lie there. Just because you believe it doesn't mean "Science" agrees with you.

Christians seem to mix "science" with personal beliefs frequently, so you are far from the first to make that mistake.

Too bad. This ought to do wonders for our relations with Muslim countries.

Until religious organizations start paying taxes, I don't want to hear any noise about God vs. Governmental Policy.

I would like to know why the people that are pro-life have to be called names, or referred to as whacko's or whiners?
I don't see pro-choice people being called names on here.
Like it or not, there are religious people in America and those people are entitled to have opinions as much as liberals and athiests hate that.
Surprisingly it is because of the past wars you are all against that we still have that right and all the other freedoms we are afforded here in America.
I hope I am dead and gone when this country is taken over totally by unpatriotic, amoral, and athiests.

And no, I am not a religious fanatic and I do believe in a woman's right to choose. But the lack of respect, tollerance and empathy shown on these comment boards scares me for what's to come.

Thank God! This is long overdue. Thank you, Mr. President

Mac

You make a good point. But there have also been many innocent people killed by the death penalty.

Mac,

Don't use the argument that a person who receives the death penalty is convicted of something and an unborn is innocent. A life is still a life. Can't have one and not the other.

Here he goes, spending money foolishly. Democrats, spend, spend spend. We are in financial trouble already and he wants to fund other countries abortion clinics. I believe in pro-choice but this doesn't make sense. Let these other countries fund their own clinics, I don't care what happens in those countries. Maybe men in other countries should use rubbers. OBAMA QUIT SPENDING OUR MONEY ONE FORIEGNERS, GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT, THE AMERICAN CITIZENS!

To answer Dee T question "So much for "transparency in government" and fiscal responsibility. Which campaign contributor is he paying off with this move?"

He is paying off the 48 million people who voted for him and he signed the bill right in front of everyone. No secret here. Everyone should have expected him to do this, not sure why there would be a surprise about it.

Keep a consistent life ethic.

Abortion, war, indifference to the poor and suffering ALL must end. You cannot be pro-life and pro-war – they are incompatible.

Women deserve a society that does not treat pregnancy as a disease to be prevented or cured. Healthcare, employment reform, legal reforms to protect pregant women against violence are all needed before abortion can be ended as a practice. It's funny – the majority of women who abort do so because they feel that there is no other way ; that they won't be able to continue/begin shcool, that they will lose their jobs, that their family will shun them, that their boyfirends/husbands will not supprt them or leave them

This is "choice"?

Don't make abotion illegal – make it unthinkable. Women deserve better.

I have 7 children and I have a good home on 112 acres for them. I stay at home and work from home so I can be with my children who are still at home (2 are grown and in college) to make sure they are raised by ME and not by strangers that run mini prisons for kids.

I have a good well-educated husband who pays the bills, comes home faithfully, doesn't drink and doesn't hit. I am a welfare baby who worked hard to get where I am today. I am educated, I did go to college and I am PROUDLY pro-life.

So all you pro-choicers judging pro-lifers about how we raise our kids, let me tell you this, at least many of us are smart enough to take birth control when we don't want another child at a given time in our lives.

Planning ahead of time is the smart thing to do, making decisions AFTER the fact is the ignorant thing to do. Now which group is ignorant? And don't feed me bull about "Saving the life of the mother" when statistics show more than 96% of abortions are from lack of planning NOT to save the mother or baby and NOT due to rape.

And yet pro-choicers that I know mock me because of my 7 kids, they say I could have aborted or taken birth control. Why in hades would I want to do that? I'm smart enough to know when to use birth control, and intelligent enough to know if we can't afford another child or not. There's no need for those as smart as I to ever have need for an abortion except in the extrememly rare cases of rape and when a life is in danger (and this is EXTREMELY rare).

Abortion as a method of birth control is murder, plain and simple, and those that do this have blood on their hands. And this executive order makes me very sad that I voted for Obama.

You pro-life people are so silly. Once these babies are born, you don't support the organizations to take care of them or support government intervention, but yet, jump on the bandwagon to have government support for such a personal choice. Thank you Pres. Obama for following thru.

For all of you who are upset because Pres Obama has overturned this policy, he always made his opinion/stance known prior to the election. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Also, were you pro-lifers this outraged when Clinton overturned this policy in his presidency, or is this situation different?

HORRIBLE EXECUTIVE ORDER! Just Horrible.

How could you??????

Statistics show that EDUCATION on family planning reduces the number of abortions. Ergo, if you want to reduce the number of abortions, education is key. The Reagan and both Bush administrations, terminated this funding because abortion was mentioned in any type of counseling programs. So for the years that they were in office, less education and family planning was available and statistics show, the number of abortions increased.

Family planning is education about birth control. These services teach women about birth control options in order not to reduce unwanted pregnancies. In general, sex education is not taught by familes or schools in third world countries. Family planning is vital.

At very least the Pro-choice movement grants people the personal freedom to decide for themselves whether or not they want to reproduce. No government or organization should be able to tell any woman otherwise about their body functions.

If you don't like abortion, don't have one.

I applaud Obama for his decision on this.

Confused:

You can't compare the death penalty to abortion. A convicted criminal gets the death penalty. What is the unborn guilty of?

I also get tired of people saying that if you are anti-abortion you are pro-war. I was in the military for 22 years and even then I wasn't pro-war.

Right now we have laws that state a person can be held accountable for manslaughter if he/she causes a woman to have a miscarriage. How can you be held responsible for ending a life (manslaughter) but you can still abort (kill) the same baby legally? We have become a nation of me me me. We only do whats convienent for me. It's the easy way out. It's better for me. It protects me. I can't afford the child. I don't have time for the child. Me me me. Let's think of the other life for once.

With the science we have today we know that life begins at conception. Those cells (if left to develop) will never be anything other than a human being. To end that life is a crime.

I am pleased that President Obama did this. I can tell you that in my travels to various countries across the world, women in developing countries have many reasons for wanting abortions (poverty, family violence, rape, incest, etc.). Unless you are in their shoes, you should not speak for them.

And I still don't understand how Republicans can be so pro-life but advocate for the death penalty. Hyprocrisy.

I'm pro-choice. So obviously I support something like this.

I wonder how many of these "pro-lifers" support our actions in Iraq.

My President!!!!!
Thanks for giving women the FREEDOM to have choice.

Thanks for liberating us and giving opressed women in other parts of the world a chance to have a voice in their destiny.

CNN – Please post!!!!

It would appear that a lot of people think that a woman should not have a choice for a procedure that could (a) save her life, (b) prevent bearing the child of her rapist, (c) prevent bringing a child into the world only to spend money she doesn't have for doctor bills to keep it alive a few months and then have to bear the costs of a funeral.
Does any of this make sense?

Yes – this is a top priority right now. The US needs to send money (that we don't have) to 3rd world nations to promote and support abortion. Boy this group really has their act together!

This is outrageous! We're in a recession – getting worse – and now Obama plans to send our hard-earned money to foreign countries to fund their abortion clinics! And he did it in secret! So much for "transparency in government" and fiscal responsibility. Which campaign contributor is he paying off with this move?

Good for Obama. He is fulfilling his campaign promises. The GOP and the "Christian" right are such HYPOCRITES! UGH!

I am a CHRISTIAN and I believe in the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. If you don't agree with abortion there's something very simple you can do: DON'T HAVE ONE!

All the "Christians" that voted for him just knowing he was going to work with them to help stop abortions.. Not a chance. Jesus tells us that if we harm a child, we would rather have a millstone tied around the neck and be thrown into the sea. These are children. Not fetuses.

The only consolation we have is that Christ is going to return and when he does, the murderers of the children will surely pay.

Get your Bible off my Constitution.

People who protest abortions (and I do – I am pro-life) are beginning to annoy me. On the one hand, they support Palin, who supposedly is a Christian, yet incited riotous behavior at rallies by using hateful words. God said "...let us love one another." Are they more righteous because they oppose abortions, even though they hate people of other colors, nationalities, etc.? Are they more eligible for heaven?

Amber*****

Exactly what was the motivation behind your reference to "brown" people? Did I misunderstand your point, or are you racist?

Response to: momwholuvskids comment " Plenty of loving arms are available to care for those who start out unwanted by their biological moms."

There are upwards of 150,000 children in hte U.S. alone, waiting for adoption! The MAJORITY of which will be shifted from Foster Home to Foster Home thorughout their lives – age out of the system – and be left on their own at 18 years of age to again "fall through the cracks".

BEWARE of the pitfall of emotional connection to the images of new-born babies being "KILLED" – and use your intellect to see that with the proper application of safe abortion, you may well be making a bigger positive in human existance than promting the births of unwanted children.

With great respect, Mekales

Shameful. Absolutely shameful. Should be pro-life and anti-life, not pro-life and pro-choice. These children have NO CHOICE.

"Democrat AGAINST" his tax dollars being spent for international abortions: hats off to you and I couldn't agree more. If some people want this on their conscience, it's their choice. See, I am pro-choice too.

I wish the conservatives would really learn what monies that this is going to contribute and where exactly it goes before they begin to complain...

Sheesh...

Get your tax dollar knowledge weight up!

I think we should remember that not all countries are as advanced as we are in regards to women's rights and violence against women. In many countries, women are raped and beaten by their husbands and forced to have that child. Birth control is not nearly as available in many countries where this aid will be used. Child birth is not nearly as safe. This will truly save women's lives.

You pro-life people really scare me.

Abortion is a personal choice. What did women do before Roe v Wade? They had illegal abortions. Should we go back to this?

Be real people.

Yes Mike, I'm still HAPPY that I voted for President Obama. I'm a reasoning Christian that fully supports the SEPARATION of Church and State. God granted us free will. Its NOT your place (or mine) to take it away from anyone. So if you're going to make this a religious issue, who's beliefs are "correct"? I want our country to remain a SECULAR society governed by the rule of LAW.

Nobody likes abortion. Nobody wants abortion. But in many cases, desparate women who can't get a safe abortion don't have their babies – they just have illegal, dangerous abortions that put their own lives at risk.

It's better to make birth control and counseling more widely available – and when we deny access to contraception, we're not thinking about babies, we're just trying to control women's sexual behavior.

Abortion is always horrible, because even in the best of circumstances, women do suffer from the grief of abortion. It's never a good choice, but often it's the least bad choice they're able to make.

I am confused. What is the difference in the death penalty and abortion? Doesn't either result in the death of a living human being?
How can a person justify one but not the other?

Also, it you READ the article, the money does not just fund abortions, but includes information on abortion, as one of many choices a woman can make.

To murder unborn children is unconscionable on it's own, and then to fund it with American TAX DOLLAR is a crime against us all.

How dare he put blood on our hands. I'm more frightened of this fiend every day he's in office.

I fail to see where the US constitution provides a clause allowing US taxpayer money to pay for any abortions, let alone abortions outside the US.

The UN population fund????? Are you out of your mind???

However, for the libs I will ask this question; why if our economy is so bad and our deficit so much would we the tax payers fund abortions in other countries? Why spend what you don't have especially on murder?

Abortion Groups Get Bailout!

CNN PLS POST THIS

The choice to have a baby is way too important to leave it to chance – or to an accident. Many of us who are pro-choice are pro-children. We want all children to be taken care of. If an woman knows she can not, does not want to, has no support, has no internal fortitude to be a mother, ideally, she might choose to have the child and offer it for adoption, That is so rare and many womaen are not able to do that in their cultures. So, pro choice is pro life and pro child. I fully support this humanitarian effort.

I am a woman and it is my right to have an abortion if I wanted it. Some of you want to bring into this world children who most likely will be on a Government handout. Have you ever read on bumper stickers, Keep your Roseries out of my ovaries. Its our rights not your God nor the Governent.

EVEN GOD GIVES US A CHOICE. WHO ARE WE TO ACT AS IF WE ARE GREATER THAN GOD.? YOU RIGHT WINGERS TALK ABOUT LIFE. WHAT DO YOU CALL WAR? IS'NT THAT MURDER TOO?. GET A LIFE.

good for you Obama and dont apologize for it either its only conservatives who are getting offended and who cares about them anyway.

Mike I guess you are outraged that our tax dollars have gone to murdering tens of thousands of men woman and children in Iraq.

Lily, 3.49 p.m. And what about a raped woman? As far as I understand it's allowed to give money to an organisation that informs people about ALL forms of health and family planning. There are countries where a raped women is sentenced for indecent behaviour and/or will be killed by her family for violating their 'honour'.

We have allowed 50 million babies to be killed since Roe v. Wade. 50 million! That makes our nation more murderous than the reigns of Stalin and Hitler.

How can you be suprised??? I do not understand how people can be upset about going to war, and cry over 5,000 soldiers' deaths, yet not care about 1 million+ babies that are aborted every year? These soldiers are grown men who made a decision, and those abortions are preventable deaths. People who support abortions have no idea what they are doing. A very sad day when it comes to respect for life.

Yes know the facts first before launching into rhetoric. Third World nations especially Mexico have serious problems. They don't know anything about birth control in many cases. We need to do something to help educate them....otherwise we have to keep building more walls, fences and the human race will face extinction from overcrowding. China has 1 child per family law and that works.

my god america, enter into the yr 2009, abortion is not yours to decide it is up to the woman. And I find that all the pro-lifers are extremely PRO-WAR, this is hypocrisy! Right-wing american nutjobs= right wing nutjobs in the Middle east. You conservs are all the same, except some of you are brown and some are white.

Good job Obama!

momwholuvskids–how many adoptive children do you have?? Do you have any idea how many unwanted children are waiting for adoptive families and/or aging out of the foster care system without ever having known a loving stable environment? I'm not advocating abortion in EVERY circumstance, but I do know categorically know that there are NOT enough loving homes out there.

Amber, you're wrong.

The policy requires non-governmental organizations to "agree as a condition of their receipt of [U.S.] federal funds" that they will "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations".[3] The policy has exceptions for abortions done in response to rape, incest, or life-threatening conditions.[4]

So now, they can perform abortions and get our money for it. Ridiculous.

All you "moderates" still happy you voted for Obama? Happy that your tax dollars will be funding the murder of innocent foreign children still in the womb? We begged and begged: Please look at this man's voting record in the Senate before you cast your vote! I dare say this is not the "hope" and "change" you were looking for, is it?

Help me, God." This is Obama's last words in his speech of the Inauguration on Jan.20, 2009. The children come from God's greatest gift. I really really don't understand why Clinton, Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Democratic party have been persistently stuck on the ABORTION which IS MURDER in Christian of 88%, Jews of 2% in American. My bad dream comes so fast true in three days after the Inauguration. So many people in the church, catholic including my family have prayed for God change his mind not to reverse the abortion. How can we ask God help us even 43,000,000 babies in America have been killed by abortion since Roe VS Wade in 1973. I TRULY MISS GEORGE W.BUSH.

Why do GOPers oppose this? Let's see:

1. Informed people can make informed decisions leading to happy healthy reproductive lives and successful families. We certainly don't want that in scary foreign countries do we?

2. Uninformed people make uninformed decisions that leading to potentially harmful decisions about reproduction and/or overburdened families. That's the ticket...wouldn't want them scary foreign brown people to start reproducing and competing now, would we?

@pk January 23rd, 2009 4:51 pm ET

Shouldn't I have a CHOICE of whether or not my tax money goes to something I (and millions of tax paying Americans) don't agree with? Why government funding. If Pro Choicers believe in their position so fervently, they can donate their own money, not mine.

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I am against the war.

I will be happy to pay your portion of the costs of providing family planning and health information if you will pick up my portion of the cost of the war in Iraq.

I guess that is one way to attack the illegal immigration problem.

Preventing abortions is not the solution to alarmingly high teen pregnancy rates that US boasts.Preventive measure and sex education should play an equally important part.It may be a mistake to get pregnant earlier in life but so is bringing up a child before its father decides to live with its mother.Single parent children will rise or will the number of children up for abortion.Does pro life folks think that abandoning a baby after birth is pro life?...or is it a "choice" for the mother then?it definitely is a oxymoron in its own sense!

SO DISTURBING TO READ THE "SO-CALLED-PRO-LIFE" COMMENTS.

KILLING IS KILLING WHETHER ITS A CHILD IN THE WOMB ..........

OR....... A CHILD IN PALESTINE, IRAQ, ETC.!

A LIFE IS A LIFE....... EVEN IF ITS AN ADULT!

BUSH AND ALL THOSE WHO ARE PRO-WAR ARE NOT PRO-LIFE.

HYPOCRITES.

Uncle S.A.M.
People like you make me weep for this country. I'm not pro-Bush choices 90% of the time, but at least I don't go anti-something because i don't like the person. Make up your own mind.

Wow! He is quite the Centrist and Uniter. Way to reach across the aisle.

This is a shame and I do not want my tax dollars to be used to destroy a human life .... he should have left everything the way it was what hes doing is shameful ....If he doesn't get impeached in the next 4 years I'll be waiting for the next election maybe he wont buy his way into the White House.... by then the American people will know what hes all about... Have heard many already say they think they made a mistake voting for him

Amber January 23rd, 2009 4:29 pm ET

Just to set the record straight I would NEVER, EVER, EVER get an abortion for myself because I believe that for me it is the wrong decision.

However, I want to give every woman the same chance I got – to MAKE A CHOICE.

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Your arguement is perfect except that it is not a choice about deciding between COKE and PEPSI ...but a life which hangs in the balance

From the depths of "corruption" in Chicago rises a "star" to save us! Oh please! But some how, according to his own investigators, Obama is not connected to politics in Chicago! Give me a break! Yes, I was not an Obama supporter, but with his great speeches and positive messages, I was actually thinking he might do something good for our country, but again...he was just "talking the talk and walking the walk", saying what we all want to hear...

Obama's record of using the media so "craftily" in his campaign is scary...And now this "not letting the cameras in" on him signing the "let's promote and pay for killing babies around the globe" is another sign of "we the people get duped by the media". For those who get all their information from "TV"...we should all feel manipulated when those in power pick and choose what we are "told"......This new executive order will promote the "murder of the innocent" who can't even live long enough to have a say in their life! Partial birth abortion and leaving babies to die, just because a woman "doesn't want the negative consequences" of her choices–is and forever will be WRONG!

My faith in Obama's ability to lead is weakened by his "manipulative" use of the media–in order to always make himself look good and be politcally correct! Oh, he is so good at being politically correct it's sickning! Hence the representation of all "creeds and colors!" This manipulation of the public through the media is why he chose to have the media end his first week on a "good partisan note" instead of "now we will make it official–our tax money will go to kill millions of babies across the globe!"

Obama says he wants to move forward and spread freedom and decency, but there is nothing decent about killing babies! And something indecent and dishonest about "manipulating the people through the use of the media."

I'm afraid we are in for the greatest national debt and troubles our country has seen! Obama says he's being open and honest...but where is the openness when he can close the media out on the biggest overturn of Roe vs. Wade....like as if people around the country only care about seeing pictures of him straightening his flag pin! We care about saving innocent human life too...yet this got maybe 30 sec of airtime coverage and only "after the fact".

We live in a scary world where the "media" and what they choose to "cover" changes the perception of everything in an instant and the corrupt and immoral run wild and make the laws (or atleast get their way through lobbying!)

What I really don't understand is how "going into more debt" is going to get us ahead...Everyone blamed Bush for getting us more into debt, but here go again supposedly "doing something new right?"-going into significantly more debt that our children's children will inherit! –This isn't new-But what are we doing it for? Fighting a war against terror–N (that would actually be worth ti), but here we are going into more debt to fund more "pork" projects! Corruption hasn't changed in Washington...it's just gotten a friend in the media to help pick and choose what is exposed!

We are going to end up being "totally owned" by other countries who are buying up our "national debt" and then where will we be? Remember Obama's friends in high places in other countries who aren't all our allies...well, they'll be calling the shots in the USA because they'll be calling our "loans" and we won't be able to pay!

Oh, and Virginia, I serve the Trinity too, and they've been weeping over humanity for centuries! What a mistake we turned out to be.

I think this was good and I applaude Obama. Let it be a woman's choice. With this messed up economy having babies make it hard for some households.

Protect yourself so you dont have to worry about getting an abortion.

Way to go Obama. Those who criticize you will do it until your out off office. Sad sad people

If you don't like the idea of abortions, don't have one. Whether abortions are legal or not, they will continue to happen - they've been happening for centuries. Better to have the choice to have one safely. Women don't need people controlling their decisions health-wise.

If they instituted a law that stated "every female under the age of 18 must have an abortion," people would riot and want the right to choose to keep the baby. Therefore, there should not be a law stating that abortions are legal; women should have the right to make their own decisions.

Don't like one, don't have one.

This shouldn't suprise anyone, just wait more is coming. Obama is going to do away with any and all anti-abortion laws, including partial birth abortions. This is just sickening. Since Roe vs Wade, 49,000,000 abortions have been performed. Yes people thats 49 million, look it up. Do you realize thats about 1/7 the population of the US right now?

You can scream all about the rights of women to make a choice all you want but you are doing away with the right of the child to live. Maybe all the money spent on abortion and pro choice should be used to help educate and support these unwanted children.

Why is it easier and cheaper to adopt foreign children than our own? If a man doesn't own a woman – than why does the women own her children. Why do men normally have to support the children when they get divorced if they had no say about their being born in the first place.

The hipocracy goes both ways people. You can't scream about soldiers (who chose to enlist) dying in a war and then abort your own children (who have no voice or choice).

This madness needs to end somewhere.

Silly rabbit, social issues are for idiots.

all the pro lifers are whining, still wanting more live babies so they can have more dead soldiers.....But here's the thing : The babies that grew up to be soldiers, were WANTED BABIES.......But, the gals that WANT Abortions, DON'T WANT to raise these kids....

SO, why not let them do what they WANT, (in other words, pro-choice)

Oh PLEASE people. For all of you crying "what about the babies!", this world is grossly over populated and humanity is exhausting all of it's natural resources; which will cause more wars and millions more deaths around the globe. We're also causing the rapid extinction of this planet's other occupants. And "self control" (Lilly) is meaningless in areas of the world where women are property and rape is a weapon of war. You have a problem with abortion, don't have one.
But if you're concerned at all with unwanted pregnancy and over population, then support honest, realistic sex/health education, human/women's rights, and affordable birthcontrol/health services for ALL.

Let's spend, spend,spend the tax payer's money ! New boss, some as the old boss ! We all got fooled again !

Legalized abortion in the US has ended more lives than all of our wars combined.

These people only care about the children when they are in the womb once they are born they could care less about how these kids eat where they sleep and how they are treated as human being and how they will be educated. Think about it people.

Well you be willing to help and support them after they are born?

pop quiz folks...

who makes choices for baby before it's born? The mother that's who.

and who makes choices for baby after it's born?. The mother again.

enough said

I don't want my tax dollars to go to wars or Haliburton or most of the horrible things Bush spent my money on. We don't get to pick and choose what our government supports. I am pro choice and personally anti abortion. But that is only a choice I want to make for myself not you and your family!

Hey ! Hey ! I'm pro-choice, and I'm a Democrat !

I Totally agree with "1st nurse" ....sounds like she knows what going on, on that subject, because there is several Nurses in our Family, also.... If we continue to not let the women & especially those gals who are 13 + have their choice, it wll ruin the 13 year olds life.....Not to mention that every Nurse that I know of, says that those gals that cannot get an abortion, ends up in a back alley somewhere, with a clothes hanger, and has the abortion herself, believe me !!
So, that being said, why don't they let them have their choice, and let God take care of it, if it's so much of a crime, or sin ? We simply cannot be playing God, constantly !!

The rabid anti-choice crowd practice nothing more than thinly veiled misogyny any more.

Sure, keep calling women murderers and ignore their health & circumstances. Make birth control impossible to get to. Abortion has actually INCREASED under this ridiculous crap.

At least now these women will be able to obtain medical attention- birth control, paps, etc- stuff that was denied due to lack of funding even if they didn't want a termination procedure.

Don't sit there and tell me you have regard for life when you have no regard for women or their health. What a bunch of self-righteous inhumane phonies.

Lilly

are you saying that a zygote or even an infant can make a intelligent or wise choice for themselves????

PUH-LEEEZE(eyes rilling)

"pro life" idiots

How many of you would take the same position if your daughter or sister or niece was raped

You're all a bunch of hypocrites, Politicizing what a Woman does with HER body, and a fetus is not a baby. Anymore than an egg is a chicken.

legalized murder funded by liberal democrats with taxpayers money

Dear repubes, we won, you lost!!! It's our world now....GET OVER IT.

Thank you, President Obama!

I agree that it is "common ground" to want to reduce abortions. (by the way, using our tax dollars to pay for more abortions will promote them, not reduce them). Pro-choice people agree that "we should reduce the need for abortion", My question to them is WHY? If you are pro-choice, and you don't think abortion is homicide, why would you see any need to reduce abortion? Or, is it that pro-choicers do think abortion is homicide, but it;s an excusable homicide? What homicide is excusable?

Obama Victim January 23rd, 2009 4:08 pm ET

let's kill as many children as we can….as fast as we can…………

I am so proud

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We did...we went into Iraq and had a good old fashioned war. I wonder how many children were killed? Still proud?

Unfortunately, people in the third world do not have any family planning and those who can least afford to have a child are the ones who have four or more children. This is in part due to a complete lack of education. Like Planned Parenthood in the US, there are volunteer groups overseas that were providing these services with Private grants and local donations. The government grants can make a big difference in the education and prevention of unwanted pregnancies. These children born without any economic, moral, or educational support, end up drug addicts by the time they are six or seven years old. The streets of many Latin American countries are filled with these children; abandoned by their parents or making them beg to support them.
I ask which of the two (having an abortion or throwing them to the streets to a life of drug addiction and crime – and yes, these are for the most part the only two alternatives).
For those who place adoption as a third alternative, I ask how many of those "Religious and righteous people” have adopted a child?
Before you start calling baby killers to those who favor abortion, you may want to reflect on the alternative.

The Dem-controlled Congress could and should just try to legislate this executive nonsense away. Simple legislation would solve it with a prohibition on limiting the uses to which US health care aid money can be put.

@ Save my Hard Earned $$$

And yet I bet you supported the war in Iraq. Strict adherence to an ideology in the face of contrary factual evidence almost always leads to hypocrisy.

HA – Your reasoning (if one could call it reason) is just plain stupid. So, because sad things are happening to children, we should not let babies be born because something sad may happen to them???

No one is praying TO babies; they are praying FOR them.

My prayers are for all children every where at all stages of development, including the most precious baby in the womb. Plenty of loving arms are available to care for those who start out unwanted by their biological moms.

Thank you Barack Obama for understanding the absolute need for women around the world to have access to legal, safe abortions.
Against abortions, don't have one, but give women the right to choose.

Thank you...

No you don't have a choice to impose your religious opinons, let's say your religious "choice", on the rest of us. Family planning is part of health care that is so desperately need throughout the world. And a very important and successful part humanitarin out reach for the US. More important than arming regimes we agree with or invading a country we don't.
Tax money is spent to buy guns and bombs, tanks, warships, bombers, etc., It's a huge part of our federal budget, these things of death are against many Christian and non-Christian beliefs, but I'd bet you don't mind because in your opinion it's patriotic to kill your enimies?

Blah Blah blah

itbeme – Problem is it's not just the woman's body; it's the babies body, too, rather, babies LIFE!

itbeme – Problem is it's not just the woman's body; it's the babies body, to, rather, babies LIFE!

Ob was so high and mighty that the poorest and weakest among us needed the most help. You can't get any waeker or poorer than a baby in the womb.

Good and I hope he reverses all of Bush's policies that he can with exec. orders.

I don't believe in war. Should we cut funding for the military too? no. Saving lives is saving lives. The programs this money will go to do other things besides provide abortions to women who want one. They also take care of the babies that are born and prenatal care. It's called family planning and choosing abortion is part of it. Judge not people. They will answer to their maker, not you.

Bad news for those who uphold the dignity and uniqueness of human life. May God open Obama's and others' eyes to the great evil of abortion. Murder is no one's choice.

It's quite humorous that all the same people that so anti water-boarding are so pro-abortion. We can't fake drown someone, but we can suck the life right out of them.

We dehumanize that which we wish to destroy.

Happened with Jews in WW2 Germany and happening now with the most precious among us- the preborn/unborn. I for one welcome science as it will become clear to the uneducated what they are truely doing. There are others who are here to help the country heal. Please open your eyes and don't be afraid to explore the truth!!.

Hey Hilary, JWM. Just in case you are not quite insane enough to prevent you from reading this, THE BABY HAS RIGHTS TOO!!!!!! NO MATTER WHAT YOU DARN LIBERALS SAY, IT DOES!!!! It is so interesting to see you on one hand talk about human rights and nurturing for all, and on the other hand supporting this evil. GET A LIFE, SOMETHING THOSE BABIES DO NOT HAVE!

PK: Of course you should have a choice. Too bad you squandered any good will to that effect by dragging the rest of us along with you right wing crazies for the last eight years. Shouldn't we get our tax dollars back after you did the exact opposite of what we wanted for eight years, ruining the country in the process?

while I could care less about abortion one way or the other, why are we sending money to foreign countries? Doesn't anyone know we're in a recession? Leave it to the dems to go blowing money on unnecessary crap

Good. Its time conservatives started accepting that just because their religion says something doesn't mean its actually the right thing.

I like this President more and more.

B.O. Let’s keep the Aid dollars here at home ! They want abortions in Mexico, let the drug cartels sponsor it. That's not our problem.

I truly understand that it is a woman's choice to have, not have a child. But abortion should not be used in place of some other method of Birth Control. I would much rather pay to give out prescriptions and condoms to prevent the pregnancy.

When will they actually take light of the miracle of life, whether it be God given or just some fluke of nature?

Hey Pro-lifers, in the time it takes me to write this e-mail 10 children will go missing in America, 3 children will be killed and 9 will suffer some type of abuse. Here is an idea: show me that you know how to care for the children we have and I will listen to what you have to say. Oh by the way in case you forgot: "Thou shall have no other God before me." What am I say? STOP PRAYING TO THE FETUS AND START PRAYING TO GOD; MAYBE SOME HEARTS WILL CHANGE.

If that's the case, shouldn't we have a choice as to whether or not our tax dollars went to finance a war for oil?

At Amber.... come on now you can do better than that, you took the time to post. Please next time make sense

Kevin... of those same bible lovers? Some would, and would cite Leviticus 20:13
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives."

WAF (who thinks men shouldn't weigh-in on the issue of abortion),

I AGREE!!!

So let's overturn Roe-V-Wade (which as upheld by MEN on the Supreme Court), make all abortions illegal, and WAIT until the Supreme Court is comprised of only women!

You're an idiot. Or does that fact escape you too?

Matt, Jessie,

Control what you can control and let all the other stuff go. I agree to disagree with you. Free speech and all that jazz.

Blah, blah blah

Bravo President Obama!!! Finally a common sense approach.

Well, pk @ 4:51

It's really easy. Just pretend that liberal tax dollars are going off to fund information on abortions, and pretend that your tax dollars are going off to slaughter brown people in foreign countries.

I'm sure you'll find that amenable.

Family Planning does not automatically mean abortion.

To all of you who are professing to be pro-choice–
What you are neglecting to see is that a pregnant women already made the CHOICE to be sexually active and put themselves in the position to become pregnant. Obviously there are exceptions, such as rape when the women did not make the choice, and there are lives of women to protect who might die from complications of pregnancy, but these are rare exceptions! You already made your choice when you got into bed with someone who could make you pregnant–your definition of "pro-choice" is actually just a euphemism for ANTI-ACCOUNTABILITY.

Science has moved beyond the falacy of the term fetus to peek into the womb at tiny babies!

And any society that would condone the killing of "the least of these" tiny babies for convenience, 95% of all abortions are performed for birth control, is in deep trouble.

PBO seems to be using Pilate's basin to wash his hands of this bloody issue.

Why would this come as a surprise to anyone? He is the ultimate liberal when it comes to abortion rights. Hey, Roland Martin, whats your take on this?????

Mother Teresa: "Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness."

@ Democrat No More

You first...run around with your gun out threatening to start a civil war and we'll see how long that lasts.

Some of us who voted for Obama . . . also want to protect the unborn.

"Choice" is a term which trivializes the issue. If killing fetuses is OK with you . . . then abortion rights would logically be OK as well. But if killing fetuses seems wrong . . . then protecting innocent life, not "choice."

Shouldn't I have a CHOICE of whether or not my tax money goes to something I (and millions of tax paying Americans) don't agree with? Why government funding. If Pro Choicers believe in their position so fervently, they can donate their own money, not mine.

I've got the Answer to the Abortion Debate: Burkas for all US Women!

@jwm – Abortion is woman choice and hers alone. Its funny because when there is a divorce, it's always the man's duty to pay for that child. If a woman is the sole person to chooses to keep that child, should she not be also the sole person responsible to pay for it?

Why are our monies supporting other countries in this? How about using those tax dollars to educate our kids in abstinence and birth control? Or, God forbid, use it to help families adopt these unwanted babies. We're scraping to feed our families and he wants to take our money and send pamphlets to Zambia. Give me a break. Keep the money here.

BABY KILLER. And with my tax dollars going abroad.

No matter how many times I read about this issue, I still don't understand it at all.

Obama will be judged by one above his pay grade.

Sarah Palin got to choose. Why shouldn't all other women?

No, Dan in TX at 4:28.

They want to create a Theocratic nanny state, just like the one they have in Saudi Arabia.

Time to hide your money and stop paying taxes. A new civil war is coming if American tax dollars are going for INTERNATIONAL abortions. My tax dollars should be used for American.

I love all the Anti-Abortion Pro-War/Guns advocates in the world...

Funny how bible-thumpers forget that God gave us free will. It is not the province of secular law to remove that from us...nor is it the province of secular law to mandate adherence to religious dogma. if you would like to live that way, I suggest you buy a home in Iran.

You all want to count the 4k who died in Iraq, (which by the way is less than ahve died in IL for the same time period) How about we count the amount of Lives ended by Abortion???

The Religious Right only cares about you until your born, and will use the Bible as a "salad bar" (take what you want, leave what you don't) to justify their position.

I have YET to meet a pro-lifer who supports welfare.

I'm going to hear my seven-week old baby's heartbeat at the doctor tomorrow with my wife. Pretty sick to know that it would be legal for us to go kill it if we didn't want it. It is a completely different heartbeat and person from my wife. This issue is not about women's rights...it's about the rights of the unborn child.

Joyce in Indiana, You are telling me that these organizations ONLY provide information about abortions and not the actually murderous procedure? You know this as fact by what means? This was a bad decision pure and simple!
Cori from Colorado, horrible health care? Have you EVER stepped foot outside of this country? Horrible health care? Please then explain why others come to this country for care. Please explain why med schools are full of foreign students! Sad policy, sad decision!

ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE:

Life begins at first breath:

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2:7 (KJV)

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. - Job 33:4

The life of the mother is more important than the life of the unborn:

If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. - Exodus 21:22-24 (NIV)

Just in case the Bible is the only source of "reason" you claim to listen to.

Interesting... this gets news, but the 100,000 people who showed up in DC on Thursday to protest the killing that is being called "family planning" don't get any coverage. Where is the satellite picture of them, CNN?

THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT!!!! THANKS FOR FORCING HIM ON US CNN. YOU SUCK

Hey JWM of NC

(For anyone that cares, Abortion is a woman's choice not anyone else's. I include the father in this. If a woman wants to abort her baby she should at least tell the father but ultimately it is her decision and her's alone for she will endure it alone for the rest of her life and she will answer for it come judgement day.)

What about the woman that had her children and then didn't want them? So she drowned them in her car. That was her choice. What's the difference? What , the babys where alive? They are alive when they are in the mothers womb.

So let me get this straight...
Women are NOT men's property to do with whatever they choose, but apparantly children ARE women's property to do with (and dispose of) whatever they choose.

Anyone else see the problem with this?

To quote liberals, when we refuse to defend the most vulnerable among us, we have lost our humanity. Indeed.

Virginia,

You are a complete idiot!

Freakin' murderer. And he claims to support human rights abroad. Disgusting.

@ Pat J

Yeah...here's maybe one thing most of us can agree on: ABORT THE BAILOUT! hahaha

Putting aside the moral issues concerning abortion, what about the political implications including national sovereignty? Planned Parenthood's affiliate in Ecuador, APROFE, pushed for the legalization of the abortion pill even though abortion was illegal there. I don't think either political party in the US would tolerate another nation advocating policies that are illegal here.

Hmm... funding abortions in other countries. Sounds like the federal government has too much money and too much unconstitutional authority.

I've got a novel idea. Scale back the mission creep of the federal government, and have it do the limited mission the founders intended: defend the shores and deliver the mail.

Everything else, should be at the state and local level. Imagine your state keeping the bulk of its own tax dollars for projects and services close to home, instead of building pork projects in other states (Woodstock Museum come to mind?). Lobbying would be pushed to the state level and one state's fiscal stupidity wouldn't financially burden the other 49.

Can we storm the castle now?

The same people barking about Obama killing babies, are the SAME people who smile to images of slaughtered children of war.

the devil is real alright.

How about someone taking away the CHOICE to wage war ya morons....i don't see you retards standing up for that.

abortion will continue as long as war continues FOOLS!

DEAD BABIES ARE THE SAME WHEATHER IT'S A WOMB OR A BATTLEFIELD.

For anyone that cares, Abortion is a woman's choice not anyone else's. I include the father in this. If a woman wants to abort her baby she should at least tell the father but ultimately it is her decision and her's alone for she will endure it alone for the rest of her life and she will answer for it come judgement day.

I find it funny how all these people are screaming about abortion and their tax dollars going toward such programs, yet they don't want their tax dollars to go to programs to help indigent mothers, who choose NOT to have an abortion, raise their child after it's born.

The Bushes believe it is ok to kill for oil... why not for family planning?

Finally the triumph of reason over zealotry.

To those who think abortion is murder...

Doesn't that make having a miscarriage involuntary manslaughter?

Dead babies make for lousy soldiers. Why kill a fetus when we can kill that grown fetus in an illegal war to further push our greedy agendas? Hey, I bet we can get the far right religious on board with this!!

- Random Republican scumbag

Just to clarify for those of you who are, well, CONFUSED... PRO-CHOICE... does NOT equal PRO-ABORTION.. If one is PRO-CHOICE they advocate the right for the individuals involved to DECIDE for themselves what the proper course of action is for THEM... (you know...unlike SOME individuals who have no stake in the life of the child after it is born...) PRO-ABORTION would mean that one is advocating FOR ABORTIONS...meaning they believe all pregnancies should end in abortion. WRONG. My husband is pro-choice, as am I..we believe that it is none of anyone's business BUT OURS how we go about our family planning decisions..and until all the people who are yelling and hollering about saving that unborn baby step up and adopt them..ensure they are raised correctly... or somehow take charge...then they need to shut up. If you are not going to be part of the solution (ie: adopting these children you so desperately want to save...or doling out the cash for diapers, food, clothes,...etc.) then all you are is part of the problem. Neither my husband or I would choose the option of abortion FOR OUR FAMILY (unless necessity came into the picture...my life in danger...etc...) HOWEVER, what anyone else does is THEIR business...not ours.

Just to set the record straight I would NEVER, EVER, EVER get an abortion for myself because I believe that for me it is the wrong decision.

However, I want to give every woman the same chance I got – to MAKE A CHOICE.

It's amazing how little regard people have for human life. As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves for ever allowing this to happen! Obama makes me sick!

A woman's right to chose belongs to her NOT our government. I don't not want our great nation to become like the Taliban or Saudi Arabia or Al-Qaeda where their religious preaching states women have not rights.

People need to understand telling a teen girl with raging hormones to basically put an aspirin between her legs till she married DOES NOT work. A prime example is what happened to Sarah Palin's daughter!! Teenagers need to know all the ways to protect themselves if they so chose to have sex before marriage.

No one wants to see an unwanted baby born and then tossed into a trash can because the young woman wasn't able to talk to her parents.

Obama is for personal responsibility. Women should decide for themselves. Don't republicans think personal responsibility matters anymore?

I don't see what is wrong with this everyone who is anti-abortion it is simple...DON'T HAVE AN ABORTION. Not everyone shares the same strict religious views as you do, when will you guys open your minds and realize that what works for you might not work for someone else not everybody is the same. Does it affect YOUR life if someone has an abortion? NO. So preach to yourself and your family to not have abortions and leave the decisions of others alone. To those who complain that they don't want their tax money going to this...boo hoo I rather have my tax money go to help the health of women than to all these other things Bush has put us in debt with. Also, Obama isn't freeing terrorists at Gitmo it's not like hey we're closing it down you're all free. The prisoners are going to go somewhere else stop pretending the situation is something it's not. It has to be shut down the entire world knows that torture goes on there. That's like saying it's ok to keep Auschwitz open even though everyone knows holocaust victims were tortured, starved, and murdered...yeah Bush was a lot better than Saddam, who was killed because he tortured Iraqi's, among other things, give me a break.

Here's a scary suggestion for all you GOPers: The Dems control Congress and could (and should) just legislate the President's ability to write this policy in the first place. That way, there's no policy ping-pong going on and the people we give our aid to can enjoy the same rights we have in this country. Last time I checked, abortion is legal here.

If that fetus you fight to protect were gay would you still fight for it?

itbeme January 23rd, 2009 3:58 pm ET
the government shouldn't be telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies.
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I agree. The government also shouldn't be bailing out banks, automakers, and homeowners who buy a house they can't afford - right?

@ maf

Men weigh in on this subject because it is our duty as a male citizen to help preserve the rights of our fellow female citizens (just like vice-versa if, say, they were to ban something like visectomies based on some obscure phrase in the Bible). Plus, there's that whole free speech thing that's supposed to preserve civil discourse and all that jazz.

I am patiently awaiting the first pro-life commenter on here to tell me how many third world children they plan on adopting.

If you have a solution, then put it out there. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Yes!

We supposedly stand for freedom of religion and there we were, inflicting the religious values of some of us on people around the world. I am very glad to see an end to that amazing hypocrisy.

Obama has reaffirmed the 8th ammendment with Guantanamo Bay and has reaffirmed relgious freedom with this. Not bad for the first week!

I am happier then I have been for about 4 years with my government

KJ,

Even before Roe Vs. Wade, women were NOT denied abortions if it was needed to save their life. Our tax dollars are going to be used as a form of birth control. Wouldn't it be cheaper to give them Nuvaring?

Why do some care more for the unborn than the ones who are living? This is not support for abortion as it is for freedom and women's rights.

waf – it's silly to say men shouldn't weigh in on the subject. Maybe in 25000 years when women can procreate without a man naturally men won't speak up, but there are plenty of pro-choice men out there who are standing up for women's rights.

This is appalling. I want to support Obama, but I don't want tax dollars going to pay for abortions.

there is no such thing as an unborn child. Every child has to have been born in order to be a child.

Some of these posts are unbelievable to me and completely blowing things out of proportion. Are you surprised at this decision? Is this news to you that Obama is pro choice?

This does not send our Tax dollars to provide Abortions. It simply allows those clinics to provide women with all viable options instead of only those options the religious right would provide. This decision should not include the government.

Call me a fool, but right now there are much more pressing matters like the economy and the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. What should be a private decision and in NO WAY effects my personal life is really at the bottom of my concerns.

Babies are not babies until they breathe air for the first time... until that point it is a fetus taht can not survive with out the mother.

This is the second of many bad decisions to come. The first was closing Guantanamo.

OBAMA you are an IDIOT, kill innocent babies, save the terrorist.

Great Job !!!!!!

There's nothing wrong in supplying information to folks in other country's regarding pregnancy and personal options to unwanted pregnancies. Some of these same babies end up being illigals when they grow up folks. I firmly believe that if folks have an issue with this then they get together and offer tens of millions of dollars will take care of unwanted and unloved children. Then Obama's reversal would not be revelent . We are ALL open to alternatives.

Millions of law abiding American citizens can't afford heathcare. We are losing jobs and homes.Can't we take care of some of our own problems before saving the world ?

I hear these organizations are teaching about abstinence and birth control too. These nefarious practices rob children of the opportunity for life as well. I don't want MY money going to things like that.

To make it clear to people who are blind-sided by the emotional argument:

YOUR fraction of a CENT of your tax return is provided to give INFORMATION ON ABORTIONS, not ABORTIONS.

I swear sometimes people here are so thick...

Lilly January 23rd, 2009 3:49 pm ET

Don't have access to family planning? How about some self control.

Lilly, you are an udder and complete moron. How are women who are being raped and sold into sex supposed to exhibit self control? Let's see... who else says that... oh yea! the countries ruled by dictators and regimes you more than likely want to invade. It's really easy to judge when you have no clue about the issue at hand. I don't support war and I don't support the death penalty, yet my tax dollars went to that. It's bogus and hypocritical to think your tax dollars will only go to your perverted idea of what is "right" in the world.

@ Empty People

Obama opposed that Act because it was superfluous. Doctors are ALREADY required by law, by ethics and by their boards to provide all necessary life-saving treatment required for infants that are born alive during an abortion procedure, which, by the way, is an exceedingly rare occurence. Superfluous legislation is just political grandstanding and I applaud him for saying no to it. You're basically LYING by trying to make it sound like he does not support doctors being required to save babies born in those circumstances.

Abortion is LEGAL in this country and our aid money and the foreign communities to whom it is given should be treated with the same respect.

No wonder the Dems don't want to cut taxes. If babies could vote, they would be protected.

Why men weigh in on this subject is beyond me. Women should all have the right to decide what is right for THEMSELVES. No one else (other than the father) need to be involved. There is a fundamental difference between the Dems and Reps and it would be mindful to leave it at that. The vitriole spewed over this issue will get sickening, so cinch up for the whirlwind.

Sorry "Empty people voted for an empty suit", but CNN does explain what this is about.

If your going to take Fact and turn around and say it's not, you may want to change your name to Rush, that way throngs of knuckle draggers can follow you off the cliff.

These same folks who are whining over providing safe and sane family planning services to help to the poorest people on earth the same people who see nothing wrong with an illegal war in Iraq, 4200 of our kids dead and more than 40000 maimed for life, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families as refugees in foreign lands and the death penalty?

I guess that kind of killing and carnage is OK as long as you got your god and your bible behind it huh?

You betcha – the family values party never ceases to amaze us with hypocrisy now do they?

"Change we can die for"

Just knew I would see some people oversimplify this measure as "sending money to fund abortions". What about not imposing a set of religious beliefs on relief organizations who are trying to do good things? I realize abortion is a polarizing issue in general, but I believe that government policy should be free from pandering to a set of religious beliefs. You know, separation of church and state?

Health care for women should not be held hostage for political reasons and not everyone who uses the family planning services of these organizations is there to abort. But shouldn't they at least have information on ALL of the medical options to make an informed CHOICE for themselves?

Looking at the amount of anti-choice rhetoric on this page, I would like to put forward the question: Which is better, women being forced to go to shady doctors, or women being allowed decent medical care? While it is terrible, I think its needed until people can learn to control their animal instincts, I would prefer women not risking more than they already do when they feel so cornered that they have to have an abortion.

I also feel that if one must be pro-life, then please, be pro-life in all things. Do not support war if you call yourself pro-life because war ends more life than any abortion clinic.

Finally, men ultimately have no say in what happens to a woman's body, because they will never have to go through child-birth, or go through the emotional trauma that comes with abortion. Just because its better funded does not mean that women will magically become pregnant just to get it aborted.

To Virginia...How many unwanted babies have you adopted? You people are amazing. You rant like lunatics about the rights of an unborn child yet could not care less about that child once born.

Virginia January 23rd, 2009 3:44 pm ET

"I hear the babies screaming—but this is one I KNEW would happen. Where is the regard for human life–we are only worried about human rights of a bunch of terrorists in Gitmo, and I care about those helpless unborn children who will never see the light of day."

Please have a plan to get the screeming babies adequate healthcare. Just being Pro-life, but without a plan for their upbringing, education and Healthcare is not going to work anymore.

That's one way to control the boarders of future illegal aliens invading the USA. Pay to have them killed with my tax dollars.

Me, being a latte-sipping-lefty as W. so elequently put it, is for reversing any executive order that #43 put into action.

Obama, please fix our education system. Judging from the comments on this ticker, we are worse off than I thought.

Well done! Finally a President with a brain and the courage to use it! Once again, bravo, kudos and thank you from the entire sane world. The right wing idiots who imagine abortion is something women do lightly need to do some research.

If those women don't want an abortion, they don't have to get one. GROW A BRAIN YOU PEOPLE.

Presidential ping-pong. Each Party reverses the policy of the opposition when they come to power.

Abort all pro-lifers and there won't be a problem.

Hallelujah!

let's kill as many children as we can....as fast as we can............

I am so proud

If Bush was for it, I'm definitely against it.

all the pro lifers are whining, still wanting more live babies so they can have more dead soldiers.

virginia,

how bout your heart weeping for all the mothers who have died because they were denied access to a safe abortion to save their own lives?

why is the fetus' life worth more than the mother's life?

Why are MY tax dollars going to pay for a war I don't want?

See, it works both ways. Good job, President Obama!

I am not a fan of Obama, nor did I vote for him. But, this is an issue that I part ways with the GOP. Good you Mr. Obama and for all pro choice advocates in the world. It's a choice that each woman needs to have the right to make, not the government!

So not only do we have to give our children, and their children the tax burden of bailing out companies and this poorly designed economic bailout, we add even more money that our children have to pay for lack of personal responsibility.

Are we going to bailout everyone in the world who refuse to take responsibility for their actions?

I thought you were supposed to be intelligent.

So sad that we have found "pleasant " names for the suffering of the innocent - abortion, ethnic cleanings, etc.. I have a new and better name for what we should really focus on –it call PRE_CHOICE.

Yeah you have the right to choose to not have sex because it may cause a pregency.

If it will help curb the tide of illegal immigrants entering the country then I'm all for it.

Mr. Obama has done the right thing in issuing this executive order. If the U.S. is to reclaim its stature and influence around the world, it must be willing to accept the social views and norms of other countries and cultures as valid in their own right. Those views and norms may be different than here at home, but that does not automatically invalidate them. Family planning and medical services policy and funding must recognize this and avoid being determined by political ideology here that undermines effectiveness abroad. To be clear, some practices like stoning and honor killings have no place in any civilized nation, but providing a broad array of family planning and medical services does not nearly rise to such an absolute level.

Mr. President,
I still support you, but we disagree on this one!

"My God is weeping right now, and my heart is breaking for all those tiny souls!"

No god. No souls. It's 2009. Get with the program.

Scarce American taxpayer dollars may now be shipped off to foreign countries and given to abortion providers. What's not to like?

Maybe if they call abortions "family planning" they can fool half of us.
But I know which half I fall in...

What a great use of my tax dollars. This is what we go to work every day to pay for

In answer to LILLY, if there was anything we all know is that hormones and sex over rule self control. I guess one look at the Palin crew and we know they have NONE!

HAHAHA, that's right, get your Bible off my Constitution.

Isn't it ironic that Obama invokes the Lord to bless this country with prosperity while signing an order that will do nothing but kill more babies.

I wonder how all of the so called Christians that voted for him feel now.

Maybe the Rev Wright was right after all!!

The "basic" health care for babies will hopefully be provided through other agencies such as USAID and development agencies. Many people who exercise good self control simply want to plan their families due to lack of resources, HIV status, etc.

Wow, the Obama way, free terrorist and kill babies...... Why is my tax money going towards some abortion in Mexico? Change I can believe in my….

so, we're sending taxpaper dollars to other countries for "family planning" (aka abortions)? for those screaming for an overhaul of our healthcare system and applauding this decision – wouldn't it make more sense keeping that money within the country to take care of a new healthcare system?

There are so many children out there already waiting to be adopted and our country can not keep track if they are put into GOOD homes or ones that they will be beaten and starved. How many stories have you read about people who adopt for cheap labor or abuse or only for the money it brings in if you foster care or adopt. Why put the child thru this misery. How many mothers have given up their babies and then found out they died at the hands of strangers or perverts.

Yeah Nelson, maybe he won't make it a political issue and refuse to sign FOCA.

the government shouldn't be telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies. Obama made the right decision. Women should have access to ALL options....not just the one the government 'deems' approprate.

The US has Roe vs. Wade as a right for women, yet we have previously not allowed that same right for others. Thank you Obama for insuring the same rights for all.

Right wing screaming, wailing and gnashing of teeth in 3... 2... 1...

This is the right decision. Obama's ruling protects FREEDOM OF SPEECH people!

A global gag rule is 100% contrary to democracy, freedom and individual rights – pioneering aspects of the founding of this nation.

Thank you....a man with a soul....and a heart.....I believe a person can be pro-choice and anti-abortion at the same time....I may not want to have one, but I certainly don't have the right to tell anyone else they can't have one! God gave us choices....those choices are not mine to judge. The choices we make will have to be taken up with God at a later date.

Women around the world die far too often, either while trying to give themselves abortions and/or by "doctors" administering them. There are those that will say the abortions performed from this day forward will be Obama's fault.....give me a break, are the ones performed over the last 8 years the fault of W??? Abortions will happen no matter which political party is in office....women will either live through them or not...that's the choice we all have to live with.

This is not a good move.

Yeah right. GOP fanatics are pro life, but against gun control and go on pleasure hunting killing animals.

They are the "me" and "myself" only party, concerned ONLY about tax cuts to the wealthy.
AFTER 8 YRS OF BUSH TAX CUTS TO THE WEALTHY, ARE WE IN A BETTER SHAPE THAN 2000. ?

In his speech Tuesday, Obama said he would strive to protect the innocent (obviously he wasn't talking about the unborn child). Can you tell me who is more innocent than an unborn child?

Its a womans right NO ONE ELESES BUSINESS!

Why not explain what it is about CNN?

OK, I will.

It will allow for our tax dollars to be used for paying for abortions ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

This coming from the only Senator (and that includes Diane Feinstein) WHO WAS AGAINST the Infant Born Alive Protections act, the ONLY ONE.

Doctors wil not be mandated to care for a baby that has the audacity to be born aive during an abortion.....

But he also is the "messiah" who said he would not want one of his children being punished with a "mistake" if they got pregnant.

Congratulation to the other 48 percent who saw through this

Good Job Obama!

Finally some reason in the White House.

Good Mr. President Obama Family planning should not be a political issue. What a way to go. Protect a woman right to chose

How about "basic" health care for the babies?????

Thank goodness somebody is watching out for us. We are in serious need of health care reform. We live in the 21st century and have horrible health care, especially the lack of access to those who can't afford it. I hope we see this powerful nation use its power for good. He's got my support, Go Obama!

Don't have access to family planning? How about some self control.

How about "basic" health care for the babies???????????

Why not explain what it is about CNN? OK, I will.

It will alow for our tax dollars to be used for paying for abortions ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

This coming from he only Senator 9and that includes Diane Feinstein) WHO WAS AGAINST the Infant Born Alive Protections act, the ONLY ONE.

But he also is the "messiah" who said he would not want one of his children being burdened with a "mistake" if they got pregnant.

Congratulation to the other 48 percent who saw through this.

And here I was beginning to really support this President.

Before the pro-lifers go crazy, understand that this does not provide your tax dollars to abort babies. It simply allows tax dollars to go to international groups that provide information about abortions as part of their family planning and women's health activities.

Since I know that someone will comment that they don't want "their" tax dollars to go to pro-choice clinics, I will add my two cents. I am a pacifist, and I don't want any of "my" tax dollars to go to fighting wars or capital punishment or schools that use spanking as discipline. See how well that works?!

I hear the babies screaming-but this is one I KNEW would happen. Where is the regard for human life–we are only worried about human rights of a bunch of terrorists in Gitmo, and I care about those helpless unborn children who will never see the light of day. My God is weeping right now, and my heart is breaking for all those tiny souls!

Why are MY tax dollars going to pay for INTERNATIONAL abortion help?

Obama has missed the boat on this one.

People should be given a choice as to whether they want their tax dollars to go to abortion or not.......why not add a box to the tax forms and ask everyone if they would like to contribute a $1.00 to Abortion the same way we are asked to contribute to the Presidential campaign.

We shouldn't be sending ANY money to ANY international groups anyway – for ANYTHING.

Haven't they heard we're in a money crunch HERE?!?

Planned parenthood, fine... Killing with no regard or second thought is a huge part of the downfall of our society.

This guy is already giving me a headache. Right when I had the audcity to Hope this liberal has to go and ruin everything. Why does my tax dollars have to pay for someone else's abortion. An abortion that I personally consider murder and is against my religious convictions.

SAD DAY FOR AMERICA.... LOOKS LIKE LIFE DONT MATTER MUCH

Good

yay! go obama!

Fabulous.

No surprise. Dead babies for all!