{"id":210055,"date":"2019-09-06T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210055"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:27:11","slug":"sanders-fund-abortion-poor-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sanders-fund-abortion-poor-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: To save planet, America must fund abortion in poor countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During a CNN town hall debate<\/a> on Wednesday night, Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shared his disapproval of the Mexico City Policy which bans the federal funding of any foreign organization that commits or promotes abortion. He called the pro-life policy “absurd” and said women “in poor countries” should have access to abortion and birth control, a comment that received backlash.<\/p>\n

During the town hall Martha Readyoff, a teacher, asked Sanders if he was “courageous enough to discuss [population growth] and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe,” Sanders responded with a “Yes.” He then fell back on common pro-abortion verbiage saying, “Women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions.”<\/p>\n

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