{"id":171586,"date":"2017-09-08T14:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171586"},"modified":"2017-09-08T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:54:38","slug":"senate-committee-including-two-republicans-attempts-to-overturn-trumps-ban-on-overseas-abortion-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/senate-committee-including-two-republicans-attempts-to-overturn-trumps-ban-on-overseas-abortion-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee, including two Republicans, attempting to overturn ban on overseas abortion funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), with help from two female Republican colleagues, is attempting to overturn President Trump&#8217;s ban on overseas abortion funding (otherwise known as the Mexico City Policy).<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined Shaheen in passing the Senate Appropriations Committee&#8217;s amendment in a 16-15 vote. These same two U.S. senators were instrumental in &#8220;voting to kill the &#8216;skinny repeal&#8217; of Obamacare in order to protect the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/laurettabrown\/2017\/09\/08\/murkoswki-and-collins-vote-with-dems-in-attempt-to-overturn-trumps-ban-on-abortion-funding-overseas-n2378787?utm_campaign=socialflow_townhall&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social\">writes Townhall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Townhall goes on to note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shaheen\u2019s amendment would limit any future president\u2019s ability to ban abortion funding overseas and would reinstate U.S. funding of the United Nations Population Fund which the Trump administration ended in April in a separate policy citing its participation in forced abortion and sterilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/support\/donate\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158231\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/LAN-donate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In April, Live Action News <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-admin-halts-funding-for-unfpa-which-aided-coercive-population-control\/\">reported<\/a> that President Trump had &#8220;cut off funding from the United States to\u00a0the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) &#8216;on the basis that the UNFPA\u2019s activities in China are complicit with that nation\u2019s coercive population control program, the implementation of which includes forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaheen.senate.gov\/news\/press\/shaheens-amendment-that-repeals-global-gag-rule-added-to-foreign-operations-funding-bill-\">According to Shaheen&#8217;s office<\/a>, her amendment &#8220;was added to the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs annual appropriations bill that allocates federal dollars for programs directed by the US State Department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>StatNews.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/09\/07\/senate-mexico-city-family-planning\/\">reports<\/a> that the amendment is &#8220;a move likely to prove only symbolic.&#8221; According to Townhall,\u00a0Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) believes the same, saying,\u00a0\u201cThis is the same debate we have every year, probably with the same outcome.&#8221; Graham also stated that the U.S. House would keep the ban on overseas abortion funding in place.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on which political party holds the presidency, the Mexico City Policy is regularly reinstituted (by Republican presidents) and rescinded (Democrats).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), with help from two female Republican colleagues, is attempting to overturn President Trump&#8217;s ban on overseas abortion funding (otherwise known as the Mexico City Policy). Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joined Shaheen in passing the Senate Appropriations Committee&#8217;s amendment in a 16-15 vote. 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