{"id":69457,"date":"2015-08-04T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T16:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=69457"},"modified":"2015-08-04T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T17:31:29","slug":"jeb-bush-criticized-membership-pro-abortion-bloomberg-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/jeb-bush-criticized-membership-pro-abortion-bloomberg-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush criticized for membership in pro-abortion Bloomberg Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Former Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is under fire for his time as a board member of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, which last year partnered with Planned Parenthood to \u201cpush for less restrictive abortion laws and more government funding for\u201d abortion, LifeSiteNews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/jeb-bush-was-director-of-philanthropy-that-funded-planned-parenthoods-globa\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201creproductive health\u201d initiative last year was a $50 million venture, on which the organization\u2019s founder, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said he was \u201chappy\u201d to partner with the abortion giant.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Writing at LifeSiteNews, Ben Johnson further notes that \u201cBloomberg Philanthropies also split $2 million in grants between two African abortion providers: EngenderHealth and Marie Stopes International in Tanzania. The latter has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Cf7Rg8zxds\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0it performs \u2018illegal abortions all over the world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush has a <a href=\"\/news\/presidential-candidates-right-life-graham-chafee-perry-bush-trump-join-race\/\">pro-life record from his time as governor<\/a>, and has received special praise for his efforts to save the life of Terri Schiavo in 2003. In response to the controversy, his campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/07\/30\/jeb-bush-supported-planned-parenthood-before-he-opposed-it\/\">claims<\/a>\u00a0he \u201cdid not vote on or approve individual projects or programs,\u201d and his primary focus as a board member was education.<\/p>\n<p>But Breitbart\u2019s Michael Leahy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/08\/01\/jebs-planned-parenthood-problem-did-he-oppose-bloombergs-50-million-donation\/\">notes<\/a> that the governor has yet to answer whether he knew of these specific programs and spoke out against them. Some pro-life activists also contend that regardless of whether he had any direct involvement, Bush should not have allowed his name to be associated with a pro-abortion organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush is under fire for his time as a board member of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, which last year partnered with Planned Parenthood to \u201cpush for less restrictive abortion laws and more government funding for\u201d abortion, LifeSiteNews reports. The so-called \u201creproductive health\u201d initiative last year was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":69462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4532,19,4530,4531,131,3915,881,14],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jeb Bush criticized for membership in pro-abortion Bloomberg Foundation - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though Bush has a pro-life record as governor of Florida, he has yet to answer whether he knew of these specific programs and spoke out against them.\" \/>\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\/jeb-bush-criticized-membership-pro-abortion-bloomberg-foundation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jeb Bush criticized for membership in pro-abortion Bloomberg Foundation - 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