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Catholic bishops say Trudeau playing politics with abortion in foreign aid
Letter to foreign affairs minister criticizes policy speech and decision to direct aid to reproductive rights

By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
Posted: Jul 10, 2017

Catholic leaders are criticizing the Trudeau government for allowing "political ideology" to dictate its advocacy of abortion rights in its new feminist international development policy.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is also questioning Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for spending hundreds of millions more on the issue than on famine in Africa, and the emphasis on family planning that came when International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau unveiled Canada's retooled foreign aid policy.

Continued at source: CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/roman-catholic-bishops-abortion-trudeau-foreign-policy-1.4198352

Getting Freedom From Health

Gail Collins
MARCH 9, 2017

What’s the rush on repealing Obamacare? It’s true President Trump did promise speediness during the campaign. (“You’re going to end up with great health care for a fraction of the price and that’s gonna take place immediately after we go in. O.K.? Immediately. Fast. Quick.”) But that was before he discovered that health care was … “complicated.”

This sort of thinking will send us back to discussions about how our president has no permanent convictions on any subject except the inferiority of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a reality show host. Let’s move on. We have a national disaster to watch unrolling.

Continued at source: New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/getting-freedom-from-health.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0

Canada: Catholic bishops say Trudeau playing politics with abortion in foreign aid

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