Plea for an Executive Order: May Trump Reinstate the Mexico City Policy

 

USAID is the American government agency that funds the fight against poverty in foreign countries. They work with NGOs (non-government organizations) that have various programs to assist poor people everywhere.

President Reagan in 1984 created what’s known as the Mexico City Policy (which is where the policy was announced). Briefly, it informs NGOs in foreign countries as follows: If you receive aid money from USAID, you can’t perform or promote abortions.

The Mexico City Policy has become a political ping pong ball, struck back and forth between Republican and Democrat presidents with the paddle of executive order. In his first January in office, President Clinton withdrew the Mexico City Policy.  In his first January in office, President George W. Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy. In his first January in office, President Barack Obama withdrew the Mexico City Policy.

The first January of newly sworn President Donald J. Trump has dawned. People have wondered what some of his first actions will be. He has promised there will be immediate executive orders, both new ones and reversals of President Obama’s orders.

It should not matter if a person is pro-life or pro-abortion. America should not be engaged in this cultural marker in foreign lands when we are so culturally divided about it here.

The politics of infanticide posing as civil right continues. The Mexico City Policy ping pong ball is again in the air, waiting for President Trump to slam it across the net to the enlightened side of life, where it belongs.

Will he? January 22 would be the perfect day to do it.

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  1. DocJay Inactive
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    Good move.  Hope it’s done!

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  2. Manny Coolidge
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    Agree.  I would be disappointed if Trump didn’t do it.

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  3. John Berg Member
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    I’m so hopeful after 8 years of Obama.  With that said, this is important and I hope Trump signs such an executive order.

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  4. Brian McMenomy Inactive
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    Exactly right.  Especially in light of today’s speech, to not do so wouldn’t make any sense.

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  5. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    I was hoping he’d go even further – and stop funding NGOs completely. Americans are the most generous people on earth – if there is a worthy cause out there, they will fund it themselves – without tax dollars,

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  6. RyanFalcone Member
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    Usually, this act is carried out on 1-22, the anniversary of Roe vs Wade. Already, it is being leaked that Trump will indeed reverse it just as W did, on Sunday the 22nd.

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  7. Percival Thatcher
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    President Trump’s pro-life bona fides couldn’t be much thinner. His “conversion” story plus his idea that women should be punished for procuring an abortion lead one to suspect he hasn’t thought much about the subject. This should be a no-brainer.

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  8. Doug Watt Member
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    This policy of exporting abortion as well as other policies that tie political correctness to receiving aid needs to be stopped. At one time imperialism and colonialism was practiced to obtain territory for strategic and resource reasons. I’m always amazed at the Progressives and Leftists that are repelled by the history of imperialism and colonialism as they go out into the world practicing Cultural Colonialism.

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  9. Percival Thatcher
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):
    This policy of exporting abortion as well as other policies that tie political correctness to receiving aid needs to be stopped. At one time imperialism and colonialism was practiced to obtain territory for strategic and resource reasons. I’m always amazed at the Progressives and Leftists that are repelled by the history of imperialism and colonialism as they go out into the world practicing Cultural Colonialism.

    It’s not cultural colonialism when they do it.

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