Trump's abortion-funds ban should be just the beginning
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Donald Trump’s wise and humanitarian move to reinstate the Reagan-era “Mexico City policy,” which prohibits U.S. foreign-aid dollars from going to non-government organizations that perform or provide referrals for abortions, has incited a torrent of liberal outrage. Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire seethed that the edict “(favors) ideological politics over women and families.” Yet she favors a policy that requires Americans to fund activities they find morally offensive. So much for “pro-choice.”........Since the 1960s, sub-Saharan Africa has received nearly $500 billion in aid, yet the region has become poorer in the past several decades.”.......Why do these programs so tragically fail? One reason is that the money flows through organizations and advocacy groups that are often hostile to free enterprise. Government bureaucrats are the problem, not the solution, in poor nations.
They are corrupt and intercept money and spend it on themselves. .........Read more
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