House Democrats Made The Expansion Of Abortion One Of Their First Orders Of Business In A Bill That Seeks To End The Partial Government Shutdown.
Pro-abortion Democrats aren’t wasting any time in trying to force taxpayers to fund abortion >>> https://t.co/0TH2u97C5P
— Susan B. Anthony List (@SBAList) January 2, 2019
The spending bill – to be voted on Thursday – would repeal a provision that bans non-governmental organizations – such as International Planned Parenthood – from providing or promoting abortions as a method of family planning overseas.
Known in the past as the Mexico City Policy, the provision is now known as the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, and was instituted by President Donald Trump shortly after his inauguration in January 2017. Abortion rights advocates simply refer to the provision as the “global gag rule.”
As the Washington Examiner reports, the bill would also raise funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) by $5 million to $37.5 million. Human rights activists have long been critical of UNPF – an agency they have linked to the support of population control programs such as China’s coercive abortion “one-child policy.” – READ MORE