Members of the Abortion Team "Blessed" [that's what "Barack" means in Arabic, his father's language] Obama has put together confirmed over the weekend that the incoming president will immediately overturn executive orders President Bush put in place as soon as possible after he takes office. The Bush orders have protected taxpayers on key pro-life issues.
The advisors confirm the concerns pro-life advocates had during the presidential election campaign.
They indicated Obama would overturn a Bush policy that prevents forcing taxpayers to fund groups that perform or promote abortions in other countries. Known as the Mexico City Policy and first instituted during the Reagan administration, President Bush expanded the policy to make sure no State Department funding goes to the pro-abortion groups.
Obama would also overturn President Bush's policy against funding any new embryonic stem cell research.
Put in place in August 2001, the policy prevents taxpayers from paying for new embryonic research that involves the destruction of human life. Bush directed most of the public funding for the science to adult stem cells, which are more ethical and have proven more effective than their embryonic counterparts.
Embryonic stem cells, in addition to including the destruction of days-old unborn children, has yet to work in humans because of significant problems after they are injected into the body -- ranging from the growth of tumors to immune system rejection issues.
The Washington Post reports that the transition team members are working with top special interest groups and leading pro-abortion members of Congress on prioritizing the executive orders that Obama will reverse.
President Bill Clinton overturned the Mexico City Policy on his first day in office and the reports indicated Obama will too.
Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, told the Post that she expects Obama to rescind the protections on taxpayer-funded abortions and abortion counseling immediately after his inauguration.
"We have been communicating with his transition staff" almost daily, Richards said. "We expect to see a real change."
The Post also indicates that Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat who has been one of the primary members of Congress pushing for embryonic stem cell research funding, prodded Obama during the campaign to make it a priority.
She told the newspaper that supporters of funding the destructive and unproven research have already drafted language for an executive order that Obama can use.
Responding to the news, Patrick J. Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition told LifeNews.com that Obama's making taxpayers fund abortion takes away from his claims to want to govern from the center and find common ground on abortion.
Mahoney said "it would greatly increase abortions around the world. It would also create a scenario in which American evangelicals and Catholics would be paying for abortion referrals through their tax dollars."
"If President-elect Obama reverses this policy, it would show a complete and blatant disregard for the faith values of millions of American Christians as well as expanding the violence and tragedy of abortion worldwide. America should be exporting justice and human rights, not brutality and violence," he said. -- LifeNews.com
The misnamed "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA) is coming soon. On July 17, 2007, Mr. Obama told Planned Parenthood, "The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom Of Choice Act." This sweeping legislation would effectively supercede all federal legislation, such as the partial-birth abortion ban, restrictions on federal funding of abortion through Medicaid, and the ban on abortions in military hospitals. FOCA would also sweep away state laws protecting parental rights in an abortion decision, ensuring informed consent, regulating abortion clinic "safety," protecting the conscience rights of doctors, nurses and hospitals to not be involved in abortion, protecting women from non-physician abortionists, and much more. Taxpayers would be forced to fund abortions for the uninsured.
FOCA also forbids all governments (state, federal and local agencies, officials, etc.) from denying or interfering with a woman's "right to choose" and forbids them from "discrimination against the exercise of the rights ... in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information." It may even be used by local officials to attempt to prohibit sidewalk counseling. There are credible estimates that abortions will increase by 125,000 annually under FOCA. Brian Gibson, PLAM
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