MSNBC is reporting that the incoming Obama Administration will rescind the executive order which prohibits foreign groups which receive U. S. aid from counseling women about abortion.
The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he rescinded the Reagan-era regulation, known as the Mexico City policy, but Bush reimposed it.
“We have been communicating with his transition staff” almost daily, Richards said. “We expect to see a real change.”
Note that despite the plethora of problems facing us, the President-Elect’s team feels it necessary to meet with Planned Parenthood almost every day.
