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ABORTION November 4, 2012
Annotated Bibliography: Barack Obama on Abortion
Barack Obama; forty fourth president of the United States of America and a candidate of the 2012 election is someone who is part of the Democratic party and someone who is a big supporter of the choice of abortion. Abortion is major controversial issue in the world today and it’s a life changing decision women make every day and everywhere all across the United States. * (Talk of the Nation from NPR News) Talk of the Nation Washington DC (National Public Radio-June 9,2009)
This essay is about a radiobroadcast, verbatim, about different issues, in which one is about abortion. They touch down and start of on the day Barack Obama took office and so on from that day forth about what Congress and the Democratic party has done about the controversy behind the issue under Obama’s policies. The conversation is between a radio host by the name of Neal Conan and a NPR health policy correspond, Julie Rovner. Facts are stated throughout the entire broadcast. This essay will be helpful in my research paper because it gives facts on the issue behind abortion right at the point Obama took office. My paper is about his doings on the particular topic and not what has been done for the issue overall. * (Inside Track: Obama reverses abortion policy) THE NEW AMERICAN (February16, 2009) This essay is strictly about Obama’s decision, made three days after officially being placed in office, to completely drop the “Mexico City Policy eight year restriction on providing proper funding for safer and more efficient abortions in developing countries.” This article also provides president Obama’s reason for doing so to help poor women and also the pros and cons of his decision in the opinion of another reliable source. This article would be helpful to my research paper because it gives me an abundance amount on a direct policy that deals with abortion and exactly what Obama has done with that policy. It



Bibliography: * (Talk of the Nation from NPR News) Talk of the Nation Washington DC (National Public Radio-June 9,2009) This essay is about a radiobroadcast, verbatim, about different issues, in which one is about abortion * (Obama and Clinton talk about Abortion) Laura Echevarria (Spring 2008) This essay is about Obama’s response and others who are a part of the major Democratic party on their views on the Planned Parenthood Action Fund * (Obama struggles for Middle Ground on Abortion) All Things Considered Washington, D.C. : National Public Radio) April 30, 2009 This essay is a big wrap up of all my information I have already gathered from my previous resources

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