Matthew Lee and Liz Sidoti –Associated Press
- Obama gives thumbs up
As he promised during the election campaign,Barack Obama on Friday struck down a ban against taxpaper funded abortions abroad.
Obama’s move was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by defenders of unborn children.
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.