did you see my post 2 days ago on blog for choice day?

here it is (just in case you want to read it)

the subject this year was; what is your top pro-choice hope for president obama and the congress. my response was a COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION PROGRAM including FUNDING TO COUNTRIES WHO EDUCATE WITH THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOT JUST ABSTINENCE ONLY. well my dear ones, it seems my wish has come true (and in only 2 days)

Obama Overturns 'Mexico City Policy' Implemented by Reagan

U.S. Can Now Give Federal Funding To International Family Planning Groups That Provide Abortion Services

By JAKE TAPPER, SUNLEN MILLER and HUMA KHAN
President Obama signed an executive order today reversing the ban that prohibits funding to international family planning groups that provide abortions, as first reported by ABC News.

Under the hotly debated "Mexico City Policy," the U.S. government could not provide funding for family planning services to clinics or groups that offered abortion-related services overseas, even if funding for those activities came from non-government sources. It essentially barred recipients of U.S. foreign aid from promoting abortion as a method of family planning.

If organizations received government funding, they would "agree as a condition of their receipt of federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations."......

Obama Lifts Global Abortion 'Gag Rule'
Mexico City Policy Forbids Funding for International Groups That Perform or Provide Information About Abortion
By Rob Stein and Michael Shear
Washington Post Staff Writers
President Barack Obama today signed an executive order lifting a ban on U.S. funding for international family planning groups that perform abortions or provide counseling about the procedure.

The order rescinds the Mexico City Policy, also known as the "gag rule," which President Ronald Reagan originally instituted in 1984 and President Bill Clinton rescinded and President George W. Bush revived in 2001.

The decision had been eagerly expected by family planning groups, women's health advocates and others, who hoped it would restore millions of dollars of funding to programs providing health care, contraceptive services, HIV prevention and other care around the world. ..........