Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich
Norway has joined an international initiative to raise millions of dollars to replace shortfalls left by U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on U.S.-funded groups worldwide providing information on abortion.
In January, the Netherlands started a global fund to help women access abortion services, saying Trump’s “global gag rule” meant a funding gap of $600 million over the next four years, and has pledged $10 million to the initiative to replace that.
Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, Canada and Cape Verde have all also lent their support.
“The government is increasing its support for family planning and safe abortion by 85 million Norwegian crowns ($10 million) compared with 2016,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said.
“At a time when this agenda has come under pressure, a joint effort is particularly important,” she said in a statement.
Last month, Trump reinstated a policy requiring overseas organizations that receive U.S. family-planning funds to certify they do not perform abortions or provide abortion advice as a method of family planning.
Source: Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-norway-abortion-idUSKBN15Z1KL?il=0
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February 21, 2017 at 11:21 am
So, Norway’s decision bumps the US down another notch from #1 in the world to– what? #19?
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February 22, 2017 at 4:31 am
Bad enough we’re murdering our own people. We have no business helping them to murder theirs too.
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February 22, 2017 at 8:05 am
Amy Roof, the mother of Dylann Roof, was in the courtroom as Felicia Sanders testifies about her son’s death: ” ‘My son [already shot by Roof] rised up. . . and says, ‘Why are you doing this?’ . . .and the defendant, over there with his head hang down, refusing to look at me right now, told me son, ‘I have to do this because you rapping our women and y’all taking over the world.’ My son said, ‘You don’t have to do this. . . We don’t mean you no harm.’ And that’s when he put about five bullets into my son.’ ”
“The crying is general in the courtroom: the victims’ families, many of the journalists, some of the jury. . . Felicia Sanders goes on. ‘He say he was going to kill himself. And I was counting on that. He’s evil. There is no place on earth for him except the pit of hell. Send himself back to the pit of hell, I say.’
“Amy Roof sits up, cries loudly, shouts, ‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!’ and waves her arms. She stands, leans against a near wall, and collapses to the floor moaning. . .”
From, ‘United States v. Dylann Roof,” Edward Ball, NYRB 3/9/17
Like Ted Bundy, Dylann Roof, killer of nine at a Bible study group, didn’t have to grow up to be a killer– a point that so-called “pro-lifers” always ignore. They are so fixated on coercing pregnancy that they cannot bring themselves to consider what a real child needs in order to prevent more murders.
If they truly cared about human life, they would care about real children.
And they can’t. The more zealous they are about abortion, the less they care for real human life. As just one proof, I give you Mr. Dunkle.
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