ABORTION/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TEXAS: “A federal judge on Wednesday [10-18-17] ordered top United States government officials to allow a pregnant 17-year-old immigrant to get an abortion — the first ruling in a case that could eventually grow to include hundreds of other undocumented minors who seek access to an abortion while in federal custody. In issuing a temporary […]
Category: Abortion
10/16/2017
ABORTION/HHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL: “The Trump administration is preventing an undocumented, pregnant teenager detained in a Brownsville refugee shelter from getting an abortion in a policy shift with big implications for hundreds of other pregnant, unaccompanied minors held in such shelters… For the last seven months, the Health and Human Services Department has intervened to prevent abortions sought […]
10/4/2017
ABORTION/HOUSE OF REPS/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Embattled Rep. Tim Murphy is weighing his political future as pressure mounts on the Pennsylvania Republican to resign. Murphy met privately with Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday [10-4-17], according to GOP sources. Numerous top Republicans want Murphy to step down amid a report that the married, anti-abortion congressman suggested his mistress terminate […]
10/3/2017
ABORTION/HOUSE OF REPS: “The House passed a bill to criminalize abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy on Tuesday [10-3-17], advancing a core plank of the Republican antiabortion push, which has President Donald Trump’s support but is likely to founder in the Senate. Republicans advanced the bill on a 237-189 largely party-line vote, the third […]
10/3/2017
ABORTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives will vote Tuesday [10-3-17] on legislation that would criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for instances where the life of the mother is at risk and in cases involving rape or incest. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which is similar to legislation […]
9/27/2017
ABORTION/BUDGET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly half of the estimated 56 million abortions performed worldwide every year are unsafe and women in poor countries face even higher risks due to U.S. funding cuts to family planning programs abroad, health experts said on Thursday [9-28-17]. U.S. President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy that requires foreign NGOs that […]
9/15/2017
ABORTION/BUDGET/PLANNED PARENTHOOD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has taken a series of steps to cut funds for abortion providers and promote conservative reproductive policies, moving toward what supporters and opponents say could be the most antiabortion presidential agenda in recent memory. A high-profile push to withhold federal Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions […]
6/21/2017
ABORTION/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA): “Abortion flared up Wednesday [6-21-17] as the latest hot-button issue to complicate passage of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which Senate Republican leaders hope to unveil on Thursday and pass next week. The repeal bill approved last month by the House would bar the use of federal tax credits […]
5/15/2017
ABORTION/HEALTHCARE/PLANNED PARENTHOOD: “Four years after Texas gave up millions of dollars in federal Medicaid funds so it could ban Planned Parenthood from participating in a family planning program for low-income women, the state is asking the Trump administration for the money back. The request presents an important early test for the administration of President Trump, […]
5/15/2017
ABORTION/BUDGET/FOREIGN POLICY: “The Trump administration said on Monday [5-15-17] it would ban funding to foreign groups that fight AIDS and malaria in a vast expansion of the so-called global gag rule that withholds American aid from health organizations worldwide that provide or even discuss abortion in family planning. The new policy potentially will disrupt hundreds […]
04/14/2017
ABORTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump privately signed a bill on Thursday [4-13-17] that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services, including Planned Parenthood, a group frequently targeted by Republicans. The bill, which the usually camera-friendly President signed without any media present, reverses an Obama-era regulation that prohibited states from […]
04/05/2017
ABORTION/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “The US cut funding for a UN program for women and girls, a move that critics said was based on faulty information, could lead to greater instability in the Middle East and hurt women around the world. The United States, as promised, has drastically cut funding to the United Nations’ most significant […]
1/23/2017
ABORTION/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Mexico City Policy I hereby revoke the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2009, for the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning), and reinstate the Presidential Memorandum of January 22, 2001, for the […]
1/23/2017
ABORTION/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “President Trump has ordered [1-23-17] that federal dollars cannot go to organizations that provide abortion services.” [Also known as the Mexico City Policy] – Lisa Desjardins, “The 12 executive actions Trump has signed (so far),” PBS Newshour, PBS.org, Jan 25, 2017 […]
8/6/2015
ABORTION/DONALD ON DONALD: “I am very, very proud to say that I’m pro-life.” [NOTE: On 10-24-1999 Trump stated “I’m totally pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject, but you still—I just believe in choice. … I […]
2/10/2011
ABORTION/DONALD ON DONALD: “I’m pro-life.” [NOTE: On 10-31-1999 Trump stated “I’m totally pro-choice.”] – Donald Trump, Transcript, CSPAN.org, Feb. 10, 2011 […]
10/31/1999
ABORTION/DONALD ON DONALD: “I’m totally pro-choice.” – Donald Trump, Transcript, Foxnews.com, Oct. 31, 1999 […]
10/24/1999
ABORTION/DONALD ON DONALD: “Look, I’m very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject, but you still—I just believe in choice. … I am strongly for choice, and yet I hate the concept of abortion. … I […]