cwnewz.com - Pro-Abortion Groups Post ‘Wish List’ on Obama’s Web Site
Pro-abortion groups submitted a proposal of steps that President-elect Barack Obama can take during his first 100 days in office to advance a pro-abortion agenda. The groups included Planned Parenthood, the National Organization for Women, the Guttmacher Institute, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the American Civil Liberties Union. They have posted a reproductive health wish list on the Obama Transition Team Web site, change.gov. The list consists of the steps the groups think the next president should take during his first 100 days in office to promote and fund abortion in America and around the globe.
The 50-plus-page document, “Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration,” is a list of actions that the coalition says president-elect Barack Obama should put in place to “advance a reproductive health agenda that will make a profound difference in the lives and health of women, men and family in the United States and around the world.”
“For too long, our nation’s reproductive health policies have failed to address adequately the heath care needs of women and their families,” the plan says. “Skyrocketing costs and ideologically driven government restrictions have put reproductive health services out of reach for millions of women.” "The list" includes:
- Increasing Title X Family Planning Funding, which funds Planned Parenthood and others on the list, from $300 million in fiscal year 2009 to $700 million in 2010.
- Federal funding of abortions for Medicaid-eligible women, federal employees and their dependents, residents of the District of Columbia, Peace Corp volunteers, Native American women and women in federal prisons.
- Reduce the cost and increase availability of contraceptives for women on college campuses.
- Rescind the so-called “Global Gag Rule,” or Mexico City Policy first implemented by President Ronald Reagan in 1989, to allow federal funding of programs in foreign countries that promote or
perform abortions.
- De-fund abstinence-only programs.
- Increase federal funding of international family planning programs from $461 million in fiscal year 2009 to $1 billion for 2010.
- Remove age restrictions -- which is now 18 or older -- for access to over-the-counter emergency contraceptives.
- Create the first-ever comprehensive sex education program that is paid for by federal dollars.
- Calls on Congress to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which would strike down all state and federal laws that restrict abortion and make federally funded abortions available in all 50 states.
- Reverse the Health and Human Services Federal Refusal Rule, which protects health care professionals who are morally opposed to promoting or providing abortions.
- Appoint judges who support Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion.
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