by Dan Matheny

Created on: February 17, 2009

THE HIDDEN AGENDA

If we are to hold ourselves accountable, in any sense, to the potential that any life has be it African, Latino, Asian, European, or American can we really afford to legitimize the use of abortion as a method of birth control? It doesn't really matter that it is "legal" in the United States. It matters that the Mexico City Policy banned the use of Federal funds for family planning services that included abortion as a method of birth control. President Obama's decision, made so early on in his first days in office, to rescind that executive order is, like his Democratic predecessor, Mr. Clinton, obviously a priority because of the special interest groups that support him. Make no mistake: this is a money issue, as the aborted fetuses are worth a lot to those who would sell their body parts.

What's being ignored here is the whole power of the President to give an executive order in the first place, whereby he creates a law outside of a Congressional act. That is, he appropriates funds without a bill which, according to the Constitution, must be passed by the House of Representatives. In 1997, the then Republican Congress passed a joint resolution that the United States should in no way be funding those agencies which actively lobby abortion as a basis for birth control in countries that are pro-life. While, on one hand, Mr. Obama seems to be voluntarily limiting his power to issue executive orders, there is no question but that he intends to expand it to promote those special interests who are sharpening their knives in anticipation of all those body parts from all those aborted fetuses. When did the United States get in the business of aiding foreign bio-research, if you want to call it that (for it is, in fact, butchery of human flesh rather than animals)? True, we may not be the conservative country we were as little as 10 years ago, but isn't this the steel fist behind the velvet glove?

The key to responsible foreign policy is to learn as much as possible about the cultures of those countries with which we have relations. If they do not, because they are predominantly Catholic, for instance, or Islamic, believe that abortion is lawful, then why should we actively be using Federal dollars to aid agencies for family planning groups in the United States to promote abortion as one of the means of birth control? Furthermore, any means of birth control is strictly forbidden by the Catholic Church. Can we, in our desire to have amicable relations

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