UK aid has funded organisation that illegally sends abortion pills to US

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1. > Britain’s aid budget has funded a Mexican organisation that illegally sends abortion pills to the US.

   Gilead will seek revenge, under his eye.

2. Good. Fuck their anti-woman enforced birth bullshit. I’m proud that our aid money went to a good cause.

   Edit: I got a PM that this has been linked on some off-site offshoot from the old /r/Drama. If any of you are reading this from there, from the bottom of my heart, go fuck yourself 😊

3. Who would be upset by this other then religious nut jobs.

4. Some good news from the Terriblegraph, that’s a refreshing change.

5. Well tbf it’s important to help uncivilised countries learn about family planning

6. So the takeaway from this should be that the right wing propaganda mill in this country has started in on the US-style assault on womens’ rights.

   I guess it was only a matter of time.

7. More proof that illegal is not the same as immoral…

8. Well at least the Telegraph is being consistent on their disdain for sending aid to third world countries.

   Abortion pills to the US is a scandal now? What fucking decade are we in?

9. Good. I wish we didn’t have to. But glad that we are.

10. We should also start to offer asylum to American dissidents. Otherwise frankly we are complicit in the genocide that the cunts in charge there are planning.

11. And I’m perfectly fine with this, the majority of the UK

12. Subverting the human rights violations of an oppressive regime sounds like an excellent use of funds.

13. Another drip, drip story by the right wing media, who are continually trying to turn the UK into the shitshow , nightmare that happening over the pond.

    They did it with Brexit. Don’t let them fool the gullable twice!

14. Hey as long as they’re legit pills, I don’t see a problem with this. Everyone should have the right to choose.

15. Well, why not? The US sends its religious nutters over here to protest our abortion laws and has been funding forced birth propaganda in the UK for years, so they haven’t got a leg to stand on if they want to whine about this.

16. Non-story.

    We’ve sent £5m since 2019 to a global reproductive rights org, which as the name suggests funds things worldwide.

    That org then sent some of it to some org in Mexico that provides abortion services in Mexico. That org of their own volition started sending pills into the US after Roe v Wade was overturned.

    Very little to do with us, and £5m is honestly fuck-all and they will have only recieved a fraction of that anyway.

    But I expect this will make the rounds on Twitter and there will be repercussions for us. Over basically nothing. Though the article is a month old now so I seriously question OPs motive here.

17. whilst i’m annoyed that we’re paying for the shortcomings of such a rich country, that organisation is doing what needs to be done and i hope none of them are harmed by the maga people

18. Why does it seem like the telegraph makes up 90% of the articles posted here

19. Good. We should be trying to help backwards countries with poor reproductive rights like the US.

20. Surely anything that has the capacity to reduce the number of foreigners is a good thing, from a Torygraph perspective?

21. Good. Women should have bodily autonomy. Fuck those backwards apes who are forcing women to die from miscarriages because they can’t get an abortion.

22. This is great – we should keep doing this. Piss Trump off as much as we can. It will be the best thing ever when he sticks a 25% tariff on all of our exports to the US and our economy takes a dump.

23. Got to question the motives of the Telegraph revealing the organisation and its method of providing support to women.

24. Good on the Telegraph to bring this positive news to our attention, it’s important that the UK supports the reproductive freedoms of women in backwards countries with less developed public health systems than our own.

25. No one would care if these were going to Saudi Arabia or the Emirates.

26. Pleased to read that the UK is helping support women’s rights in a country that is regressing into the nineteenth century.

27. Good, they are saving lives!

    Women and underage girls have already died because they can’t access healthcare.

28. Good, US Citizens need humanitarian aid packages, as depressing as that sounds.

29. Nice to know Uk aid is doing good work fighting oppressive 3rd world regimes and religious tyranny

30. I don’t think it’s a good idea to anger the country whose military we still rely on. If we want to take these kind of positions then we need to become a genuinely independent, significantly more powerful country, and form alliances with other similar countries. The US is 60% of NATO spending, if we are going to give up on NATO it will take years and hundreds of billions of pounds to even get to a position of stability, not even just to replace that protection.

    Britain is a country 20 years into a period of economic stagnation, we rely on trading lanes being open for our supply of food and energy (projected 70% reliance on gas imports by the end of this parliament), we could literally starve or freeze if global shipping becomes unviable. Most of our energy either comes directly from the US, or comes through shipping lanes which the US protects. We rely on air support in Ukraine, and for supply of shells, which substantially comes from the US. If we’re going to give up on that alliance Britain will have to become a different country, but even under that scenario of a return to economic competitiveness and a big military buildup, we are reliant today and we will be next year and the year afterwards.

    Britain has to be well thought of by both political parties in the US, the last thing we want is to be caught up in American domestic polarisation, and this is wading into the most polarizing issue. At least for the moment, and as we are now, we have to deal with the world as it is, rather than as we would want it to be.

31. I consider abortion to be reproductive health care, so good… especially when US pro-forced-birth (terminology, they’re not pro-life, they give not a single F once you’re born, nor care about a health system that keeps people alive without debt), pressure groups are over here targetting our clinics, I see this as reciprocal.

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