THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS TAKEN STEPS TO EXPAND ABORTION ON DEMAND AND A CULTURE OF DEATH
The 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in the U.S. From then until 2005, 45 million abortions took place in the U.S., 1.21 million alone in 2005.
22 percent of abortions in the U.S. are performed on Latino women. Latinas are 2.7 times more likely to have an abortion than non-Hispanic white women.
The healthcare legislation that President Obama supported and signed into law in March of this year allows for the federal funding of abortions, circumventing other federal law provisions that prohibit it. Under the new law, for example, the 7 billion dollars assigned to community health clinics are exempt from these provisions. This means that these clinics can use the federal funds they receive to perform abortions. Many of these clinics are in Latino neighborhoods and communities.
In one of his first acts when he took office in 2009, President Obama rescinded President Bush’s Executive Order that prohibited federal funding of organizations that promote abortion abroad. Now, taxpayer money can be used to fund groups that promote abortion as a family planning method, even in developing countries were abortion is illegal.
President Obama rescinded the Executive Order that prohibited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. Federal grants for this type of research encourage the destruction of human embryos –innocent human life- to obtain embryonic stem cells.
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