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<h1 class="gmail-pagetitle">Wikileaks: Clinton Will Fund Overseas Abortion Without Conscience Protections</h1><p></p>
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By <a href="https://c-fam.org/author/susan-yoshihara-ph-d/" title="Posts by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D." rel="author">Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.</a> | October 27, 2016<br><a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/wikileaks-clinton-will-fund-overseas-abortion-without-conscience-protections/">https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/wikileaks-clinton-will-fund-overseas-abortion-without-conscience-protections/</a><br></em>
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<p>NEW YORK, October 28 (C-Fam)<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b> Recently released Wikileaks emails <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">
</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>s</b>how </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">that President Obama wanted to fund abortions overseas</span>, a clear
violation of longstanding US law and policy, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">but that he nonetheless
wanted to allow for conscience protection for doctors reluctant </span>to
perform abortions. Abortion groups apparently blocked that effort,
insisting that doctors be forced to perform abortions. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>Emails show</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>that
Hillary Clinton intends to give abortion advocates exactly what they
want, US funding of abortions overseas <em>and </em>striking down all</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b> conscience protections.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>The news </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>came to light in <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15278" target="_blank">emails</a>
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>between long-time Clinton advisor Jennifer Klein and Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta</b></span>. Klein said Planned Parenthood and other abortion
advocacy organizations told her that White House staffer Tina Tchen let
them know privately of the administrations intention to change its
interpretation of the <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/abortion-groups-push-obama-overturn-law-banning-us-funding-foreign-abortions/">Helms Amendment</a>, the 43 year-old law that forbids funding or promotion of abortion overseas.</p>
<p>Abortion groups have <a href="https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/new-article-reveals-plot-undermine-u-s-law-make-abortion-humanitarian-right/">pressured</a> the Obama administration for years to reinterpret the law.</p>
<p>Klein told Podesta, “The [White House] was prepared to go forward,
but with two notable limitations. First, that any organization with a
religious or moral objection would not be required to provide, pay for
or refer for abortion. Second, that an organization that does not
provide abortion services could not be discriminated against in the
solicitation, application or granting of foreign assistance funds.”</p>
<p>“I have also heard that after listening to the strong concerns of the
advocates, this may not be going forward,” Klein said, and added, “Both
of these [limitations] pose problems, and in my view, leaving Helms
intact is a better alternative at the moment. The conscience clause is
at best odd and at worst harmful.”</p>
<p>Clinton has gone <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-helms-amendment-abortion_us_56bcabdfe4b08ffac124143b" target="_blank">on record</a>
that she intends to change the long-standing interpretation of the
Helms Amendment. Klein indicated she would go farther and make no
accommodations for faith-based groups.</p>
<p>“I’d even go one step further to argue that if Helms were amended so
that abortions could be paid for in cases of rape, that factor should be
considered in the application given the reality that in many parts of
the world, the USAID grantee is going to be the only health care
available,” Klein said.</p>
<p>Klein also said the conscience protections were a problem as “a
matter of politics” for Clinton, apparently a reference to her campaign
for the U.S. presidency.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Clinton has targeted</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>religious groups</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>as a<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>barrier</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>to abortion access</b></span>. She <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/23/hillary-on-abortion-deep-seated-cultural-codes-religious-beliefs-and-structural-biases-have-to-be-changed/#ixzz4OCSOnxag" target="_blank">told</a> attendees
at a 2015 women’s summit that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious
beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” to give women
“reproductive health care,” a term she told Congress includes abortion.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Clinton advisor John Podesta<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>has come <a href="http://www.catholicleague.org/podesta-must-now-be-fired/" target="_blank">under fire</a>
since Wikileaks revealed </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>his attempts to instigate a “revolution”</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>in
the Catholic Church</b></span>. According to emails,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">he set up at least two
organizations funded by billionaire George Soros for the purpose of
sowing dissent within</span> </b><b>the ranks of the faithful on Church teachings</b></span>.</p>
<p>Klein has been a close advisor to Hillary Clinton since 1993. She was
a Deputy and Senior Advisor in the Office of Global Women’s Issues in
the Office of the Secretary of State from 2009-2012, advised Clinton
during her 2008 presidential campaign, served as Clinton’s domestic
policy advisor </p></div></div><div class="gmail-textcontent"><p>when she was
First Lady from 1993-1999 while a staff member for President Bill
Clinton. She is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University
focusing on women and girls health.</p>
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