Earlier today I read (somewhere) that pro-abortion President Barack Obama was joking about all the executive orders he's signed in less than two weeks on the job. From our single-issue perspective, the worst, clearly, was Obama's January 23 decision to end the Mexico City Policy.

MCP, as you remember, denied U.S. population-control funding to organizations that "perform or actively promote abortion" in foreign countries. The effect of Obama's decision will be to re-direct a substantial amount of the pool of U.S. "population assistance" funds away from overseas groups that avoid involvement in abortion, and into the hands of groups that are ideologically committed to expanding access to abortion. So much for "reducing" the number of abortion.

But it's not just pro-lifers who are upset. Between January 30 and February, "USA Today/Gallup poll asked Americans to say whether they approve or disapprove of seven specific actions Obama has taken as president."

According to Gallup, "Obama's decision to reverse the prohibition on funding for overseas family-planning providers may be the least popular thing he has done so far. …Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Obama's decision to lift this ban, while only 35% approve of it."

Only 8% of Republicans approved and only one-third of Independents agreed, according to Gallup.   The results are based on telephone interviews with 1,027 national adults, aged 18 and older.

Obama likely won't get the message, but others who are not invested in expanding the number of abortions will.

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