You can bet there’s a whole shitload of pissed-off republicans out there today!

Of course the next republican administration will reinstitute the ban. They’ll reinstitute, block, cut, exempt, whatever… us right back into the crappy America we’ve been for the past eight years. So, for the next four, at least, better take Lynn Anderson’s advice and “come along and share the good times while we can.”

Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration’s ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information – an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century. [...]

The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.

“For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.”

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