Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Jan 28, 2009 / 12:19 pm
Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) called the decision by President Barack Obama to lift the prohibition against giving federal funds to organizations that promote abortion overseas “embarrassing for the United States.”
The cardinal said it was a “political contradiction” that the new American president “would decide to leave Iraq, where so many people have died, and now give an incentive to death in the United States and the world.”