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Mexico City Policy - Trump

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MrsTerryPratchett · 24/01/2017 04:42

So Trump has signed back into law the MCP which prevents US dollars going to organizations that perform abortions. Even though none of the American dollars are spent on them. So an organization which funds birth control and sexual education with US money... if they use other money to fund abortions, will be defunded.

And he signed the executive order in a sea of men.

Are people so genuinely stupid that they can't understand that birth control and sex ed prevents abortions? Or is this the price of having Pence get him the Christian Right vote?

Utter scum.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 24/01/2017 21:24

Yes it's shit but hes not the first. I think he may have been the quickest. It's his first week FFS.

Is there a list of the defunded charities anywhere that anyone knows about? I feel a bout of charitable generosity coming on.

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Whisky2014 · 24/01/2017 21:21

This policy is signed and enacted then rescinded every time a democratic to republican or vice versa is elected. I think this is no 5?

Yes it's shit but hes not the first.

amispartacus · 24/01/2017 20:58

None of whom voted for this or can do anything to change it

And who probably have problems accessing contraception and in ensuring that their sexual partners use it.

Still, what does Trump care about women who aren't American.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 24/01/2017 14:40

I'm very worried about Roe v Wade. I'm across the border so expecting at least a few abortion refugees.

In a way MCP is worse because it affects women and children in the majority world. None of whom voted for this or can do anything to change it.

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TheVermiciousKnid · 24/01/2017 13:31

On Chrome there is an extension called 'Trump Kittens' (as well as 'Nigel to Kitten'), I think there are also others. I'm not sure about other browsers - Firefox probably has similar. It doesn't manage to replace all Trump pictures but most of them. Very amusing to find a picture of a cute kitten in a story about Trump/Farage. Grin

YetAnotherSpartacus · 24/01/2017 13:24

Then I remembered that I had downloaded an add-on on this computer which replaces pictures of Trump (and Farage) with kittens

Please do share ...

SalemsCat · 24/01/2017 12:42

Hideous Angry

KeyserSophie · 24/01/2017 12:38

I'm so fucking angry about this.

Increasingly I think we should all just go celibate and tell men to go fuck themselves, literally and metaphorically.

amispartacus · 24/01/2017 11:40

And it was done just after the march. What does that say?

(love the app BTW)

TheVermiciousKnid · 24/01/2017 11:37

The photo of him signing that executive order surrounded by men (who all looked ever so smug) made me so angry. The implications of this are horrendous. And all this pretend-caring about the unborn - as soon as the baby is born they don't give a shit. And they don't give a shit about the woman anyway.

(On a lighter note, the photo you included, amispartacus, confused me. Then I remembered that I had downloaded an add-on on this computer which replaces pictures of Trump (and Farage) with kittens. Attempting to keep my blood pressure down...)

amispartacus · 24/01/2017 08:52

Look at this picture. What do you notice? When will we see the reverse - women signing a bill about men's reproductive rights?

Mexico City Policy - Trump
makeourfuture · 24/01/2017 08:40

And after he stacks the Supreme Court, Roe v Wade will be under tremendous pressure.

This will be a rolling, waking nightmare.

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