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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 917002" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/23/democrats-want-obama-to-fund-promote-foreign-abortions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifenews%2Fnewsfeed+(LifeNews.com)" target="_blank">(LifeNews)</a> — Democrats in the House have written a new letter to pro-abortion President Barack Obama urging him to do more to spend taxpayer funds on paying for abortions in foreign countries and promoting abortion counseling.</p><p></p><p>The Democrats say they believe the Obama administration is too literally applying the Helms Amendment, which prohibits direct taxpayer funding of abortions in foreign countries using taxpayer-funded foreign aid. The liberal members of the House want the Obama administration to review the amendment and funding to determine if abortion counseling, information and abortions themselves can be legally paid for under a looser interpretation of the law.</p><p></p><p>“We are concerned that improper implementation of current foreign-assistance restrictions may be impeding our ability to provide even more effective and life-saving information and services,” they wrote in the letter, <a href="http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/healthwatch/helmsamendment.pdf" target="_blank">which The Hill obtained</a>. “In particular, we are concerned that the Helms Amendment — which restricts but does not prohibit abortion funding — is being implemented as though it were an absolute ban.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 917002, member: 1246"] [URL="http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/23/democrats-want-obama-to-fund-promote-foreign-abortions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifenews%2Fnewsfeed+(LifeNews.com)"](LifeNews)[/URL] — Democrats in the House have written a new letter to pro-abortion President Barack Obama urging him to do more to spend taxpayer funds on paying for abortions in foreign countries and promoting abortion counseling. The Democrats say they believe the Obama administration is too literally applying the Helms Amendment, which prohibits direct taxpayer funding of abortions in foreign countries using taxpayer-funded foreign aid. The liberal members of the House want the Obama administration to review the amendment and funding to determine if abortion counseling, information and abortions themselves can be legally paid for under a looser interpretation of the law. “We are concerned that improper implementation of current foreign-assistance restrictions may be impeding our ability to provide even more effective and life-saving information and services,” they wrote in the letter, [URL="http://thehill.com/images/stories/blogs/healthwatch/helmsamendment.pdf"]which The Hill obtained[/URL]. “In particular, we are concerned that the Helms Amendment — which restricts but does not prohibit abortion funding — is being implemented as though it were an absolute ban.” [/QUOTE]
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