Canada link to international abortion fund is good – but US should be shamed
Marie-Claude Bibeau, center, Canada’s international development minister, spoke with her Dutch counterpart about the international abortion fund, a spokesman said [Image: Sean Kilpatrick/AP].
This Writer can’t help but feel that Herr Drumpf was trying to do what the Conservative government in the UK has been doing for years – halting funding for causes in the hope that others will step in; in effect, trying to create private, rather than public, debt.
In the UK, the Tories have been allowed to get away with it because our national news media are mostly supine right-wing poodles.
But Drumpf has acted out his prejudice on the international stage.
Let us hope he receives the drubbing he so richly deserves for this high- (if small-) handed attempt at sexual-political tyranny.
Canada is considering contributing to a Dutch-led international fund to support abortion services in developing countries, set up in response to Donald Trump’s order to halt financing of NGOs that support the practice.
A spokesman for Canada’s international development minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, told AFP the minister had spoken with her Dutch counterpart about the fund, and was considering donating an unspecified sum to it or a similar measure that would support “sexual reproductive rights, including abortion” abroad.
Source: Canada may contribute to Dutch-led international abortion fund | World news | The Guardian
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Is drumpf going to pay for all the children born (I hate this word, in this context) unnecessarily? I think not, every woman has the right to do whatever she likes to her body, in her own best interest, there will be a lot more butchery with women trying to get an abortion on the cheap.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/24/photo-trump-womens-rights-protest-reproductive-abortion-developing-countries
This photo sums up Trump’s assault on women’s rights
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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I think this is the link referred to Mike:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/24/photo-trump-womens-rights-protest-reproductive-abortion-developing-contries
As a woman, I am all for women’s reproductive rights. We have a good choice of ways to prevent pregnancies. However, abortion is not a contraception and should not be viewed as such.