US President Biden shines harsh spotlight on Uganda
April 7, 2021 An injured protestor
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken was blunt and plain-spoken in his unflattering assessment of Uganda’s poor human rights record when he delivered on-camera remarks recently while presiding at the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
Uganda’s grades on human rights took a battering before, during and in the immediate aftermath of 2020/2021 election campaign period that put on public display the army and police’s use of highhanded brute force to break up opposition campaign rallies, arrest politicians and their supporters deemed to run counter to Covid-19 rules limiting gatherings to 200 people.
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In December, masses of feminists donned in green took to the streets of Argentina to celebrate the legalization of abortion in their country. Though a judge recently blocked the new law, the initial move prompted a Central American country to take action but going in a different direction.
The Honduran National Congress recently amended the country’s Constitution to declare that the unborn have the same rights under law as those born.
“The unborn shall be considered as born for all rights accorded within the limits established by law. It is prohibited and illegal for the mother or a third party to practice any form of interruption of life on the unborn, whose life must be respected from conception,” the Constitution now states.
During the Trump administration we also finalized a common sense rule in 2019 requiring abortion to be separate from family planning and that providers not refer for abortion as family planning. All but one Planned Parenthood affiliate refused and gave up about $60 million annually in federal Title X funding, proving that abortion not helping poor women with family planning is their top priority.
Instead of giving priority to meet the family planning needs of low-income families, as we did and as the Title X legislation requires, this executive action sets in motion the unlawful subsidization of the abortion industry, likely leaving poor women to suffer.
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UNITED STATES On Thursday, January 28, President Joe Biden signed a memorandum rescinding the Mexico City Policy signed into law by former President Donald Trump.
The law prevented taxpayer funds to be used by establishments that counseled on, referred, or performed abortions in the U.S. and abroad.
According to the memorandum, federal funds will now be used to fund abortions in the U.S. and overseas. The details may be found in section 2 of the Memorandum which reads:
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(e.) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in a timely and appropriate manner, shall withdraw co-sponsorship and signature from the Geneva Consensus Declaration and notify other co-sponsors and signatories to the Declaration and other appropriate parties of the United States’ Withdrawal.
Biden Restores Affordable Care Act; Reverses Trump Ban On US Aid For Abortion Providers
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Thursday, President Joe Biden signed two executive orders restoring the Obama-era Affordable Care Act and the Medicaid, and reversing Donald Trump s ban on federal funds to international NGOs that help women undergo abortions in critical circumstances.
Biden said the executive orders are basically, the best way to describe them, to undo the damage Trump has done. This afternoon, I took action to restore and strengthen Americans access to quality, affordable health care. The issue is personal to me - and now more than ever, I m committed to ensuring everyone has access to the care they need, he later tweeted.