{"id":65951,"date":"2015-07-06T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=65951"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T19:34:43","slug":"kenyan-lawmaker-warns-obama-not-push-abortion-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kenyan-lawmaker-warns-obama-not-push-abortion-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan lawmaker warns Obama not to push abortion during trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A member of the Kenyan Parliament is warning US President Barack Obama not to promote abortion during his impending trip to the country, Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/06\/us-kenya-gays-idUSKCN0PG1BM20150706\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are telling Mr[.] Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home,\u201d MP Irungu Kangata declared to a group of protestors in Nairobi. Abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7vzHBgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT64&amp;lpg=PT64&amp;dq=kenya+penal+code+abortion&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=A-vCMZ0jiK&amp;sig=tWjZB-y-O0DH4-DNqlxFIt24E1s&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=VpCaVcjRB8bn-QHm_q7oAw&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;q=kenya%20penal%20code%20abortion&amp;f=false\">is generally illegal<\/a> in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On July 25, the president will visit Kenya <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/03\/30\/politics\/obama-kenya-trip-july-2015\/\">for the annual<\/a> Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The White House has announced his priorities for the trip as promoting ways \u201cto accelerate economic growth, strengthen democratic institutions, and improve security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abortion is not expected to be a focus of the trip, but critics fear a repeat of past Obama Administration efforts to promote abortion abroad. As Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/unmasking-the-uns-abortion-agenda\/\">previously reported<\/a>, a 2010 USAID report indicated that $23 million in taxpayer dollars went to organizations campaigning for the adoption of a new pro-abortion constitution in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>The year before, Obama\u2019s then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, lobbied against the Dominican Republic forbidding abortion in its constitution. In 2012, US diplomats rejected international resolutions on HIV care and maternal mortality reduction for not being sufficiently accepting of abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Kenyan Parliament is warning US President Barack Obama not to promote abortion during his impending trip to the country, Reuters reports. \u201cWe are telling Mr[.] Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":56460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,20,3978,603,1604,3983,1068,1424],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenyan lawmaker warns Obama not to push abortion during trip - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cWhen he comes to Kenya this month &amp; tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home.\u201d ~ MP Irungu Kangata\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/kenyan-lawmaker-warns-obama-not-push-abortion-trip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenyan lawmaker warns Obama not to push abortion during trip - 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