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Obama reverses abortion policy.(Inside Track)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
Federal money--taxpayers' money--will now be available for international family-planning groups that promote or provide abortions. President Barack Obama quietly signed the executive order on January 23 that lifted the ban--the Mexico City Policy--on funding foreign non-governmental organizations that promote or provide abortions.
"For the past eight years, [the restrictions] have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries," Obama said in the statement, issued on his third full day in office, just one day after the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on demand.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed that handing out money to abortion promoters and providers "will help save lives and empower the poorest women ...
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- Magazine article from: LP/Gas Richesson, Brian January 1, 2009 700+ words
...more positive way. They will recognize incoming President Barack Obama's focus on energy and environment and realize that propane...Willis, president and CEO of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC). "For an organization that has 'education...
- Obama overturns Bush regulations on conscience and stem-cell research.(PEOPLE &...
- Magazine article from: Church & State April 1, 2009 700+ words
President Barack Obama is moving to overturn regulations affecting health care issues...taxpayers to fund this deadly experimentation," charged Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Perkins called on Congress to pass legislation...
- Obama order lifts ban on embryonic stem-cell research.(Inside Track)(Preaident...
- Magazine article from: The New American March 30, 2009 700+ words
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on March 9 that reverses the current...to do so responsibly." Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, expressed a contrary viewpoint, based on the fact that embryonic...
- Obama's first court pick supports separation, angers religious right.(PEOPLE &...
- Magazine article from: Church & State May 1, 2009 700+ words
...Religious Right groups are up in arms over President Barack Obama's first appointment to the federal appeals court...machine. In an e-mail message to supporters, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said Hamilton is guilty of...
- McCain and Obama appear at forum at Rick Warren's evangelical...
- Magazine article from: Church & State September 1, 2008 700+ words
Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama appeared at a forum on faith and values at a California...flourish." The event featured appearances by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and failed Republican presidential...
- Regulated to death: Obama's CAFE standards will prove bad for business and...
- Magazine article from: National Review Kazman, Sam June 22, 2009 700+ words
...demand for vehicles that used less gas. A 2002 National Research Council study was unable to determine whether CAFE was the most...striking the car's interior. According to the National Research Council study, the 27.5 mpg standard--which was Congress...
- Obama reverses Bush on stem cells.(national)(Barack Obama and George Bush)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Feldmann, Linda March 10, 2009 700+ words
...use human life, even young embryonic life, to advance science,C[yen] said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, in a recent statement. C[pounds sterling]While such research is unfortunately legal, taxpayers should not have...
- Obama in Africa: Can US rival China's new clout?(Barack Obama)(WORLD)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Hinshaw, Drew July 10, 2009 700+ words
...infrastructure projects," said Giles Mohan, a China-Africa relations researcher for Britain's Economic and Social Research Council. Exim Bank's loans typically come with gentle 1 to 2 percent interest rates and only one major catch: that the governments...