Thu Oct 20, 2022 – 2:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A pro-abortion activist has written an essay in the New York Times expressing her anger over the United States’ 1973 Helms Amendment which prevents the government from using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion overseas.
An October 18 New York Times essay from Anu Kumar, the president of the pro-abortion Ipas, laments the life-saving effects of the Helms Amendment, which is named after late North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and “prohibits the use of foreign assistance to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortion.”
This amendment, paired with the Mexico City Policy – which prohibits foreign non-profits from committing abortions if they receive foreign aid – has helped reduce abortions overseas.
Ipas currently works with Ellen Gaddy, Helms’ granddaughter, to support abortion.
In the essay, Kumar wrote:
Abortion has been legal in Ethiopia under a broad range of circumstances for the past 17 years. Nevertheless, at the Shekebedo Health Center, abortions cannot be performed at all. The clinic, situated in a rural part of southwestern Ethiopia where quality health care is hard
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