Washington D.C., May 4, 2007 / 09:59 am
The World Bank has approved a new health policy that promotes abortion worldwide after the United States caved to pressure from the European Union.
Despite that most of the funds for the World Bank come from the United States and not from Europe, delegates from the Bush administration decided to lift the veto against a pro-abortion policy at the Bank in order to curry favor with delegates from Europe.
The Bush administration tried to include language in the overhaul of the Bank’s health policy that would have prevented the use of the ambiguous and pro-abortion phrase “promotion of reproductive health services.”
Nevertheless, according to LifeSiteNews.com, World Bank officials from Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany and Norway demanded it continue its coercive pro-abortion policy worldwide, including in countries where abortion is not legal.