The Z Spot

So Obama (not surprisingly) reversed the “global gag order” as the left likes to call it, or the Mexico City Policy. For those of you who don’t know, that’s the policy that prohibits U.S. aid going to international organizations which provide abortions or information about abortions to the global poor.

My feelings on this are mixed, mostly because there are two different sides to the policy itself. As far as funding abortions with U.S. aid, I don’t like the idea at all. It is obvious that a significant portion of taxpayers oppose abortion. Why should they be forced to fund something they don’t believe in for the poor?

On the other hand, there is the information side. Are the world’s poor any less entitled to information than the rich? I don’t believe so. I think the poor should be permitted to receive the information necessary for them to make their own decisions. Not only that, but with the level of religion/spirituality in much of the free world, how much of a risk does making information available really pose?

I hope that this is not just another partisan move, and that Obama considers reworking the Mexico City Policy to meet somewhere in the middle, in a way where we could fund the free flow of information about reproductive/sexual health issues, without necessarily funding abortions themselves.

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