President Trump has withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) because of its Covid failings, allegations of being soft on China, and the disproportionate share of funding borne by the United States.
There is even more wrong in how WHO leaders have wielded their influence. In recent years, the organization has not just been about promoting public-health internationally, but also in using its clout to impose woke cultural agendas on the world — including areas that have traditional moral values — and in seeking to construct an international technocracy.
Item: WHO sought to force a radical abortion regime on the world by allowing abortion through the ninth month and curtailing the right of conscience by doctors to refuse to terminate a pregnancy.
Item: WHO sought, but failed, to establish so-called “gender affirming care” on children as a medical right.
Item: A treaty being negotiated at the U.N. would grant WHO the power to make binding policy when it declared an international health emergency, thereby weakening national sovereignty and increasing the power of “the experts.” The treaty would have also allowed WHO to control discourse in the name of preventing misinformation. Trump’s EO also ends U.S. participation in those negotiations.
The withdrawal is a real shame because the organization provides valuable public health and medical services internationally. But WHO is currently controlled by overly China-friendly cultural imperialists — seemingly as interested in imposing progressive hegemony as in actually promoting health properly understood. That needs to change.
The withdrawal takes a year to go into effect. Let’s hope WHO uses that time to clean the Augean Stables so that Trump feels comfortable in rescinding his decision.
Reprinted with permission from the National Review by Wesley J. Smith.
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Fabulous, if only he withdrew from the whole UN . Stop the payment see them squirm in panic.
Good. We don’t need another outside organization establishing rules contrary to our sovereign beliefs. Perhaps WHO will get the message and realign itself what is good for every nation.
The Wuhan Hide-it Organization wants to force our country into another shutdown, and Joebama was all for signing over our sovereignty. THANK YOU President Trump, for getting us out of this corrupt, inept clown show!!!!
Any person or organization that doesn’t support freedom and the US should be DEFUNDED. Trump has dropped WHO and the phony Paris Climate deal, stopped funding UNRWA which supports terrorism, and now needs to defund PBS and NPR, which are socialist propaganda outlets!
Awesome! … next on the Agenda, Any country that doesn’t vote for US interest in the UN.. gets no monetary support from the US!
It’s about time. I don’t want them or anyone else telling us how to run our lives. They would have no problem shutting down our country again while they get rich and richer while we perish. Plus make tons of money from the pharmaceutical including the swamp.
Now get US out of the UN and the UN out of the USA!!! From An American Citizen for a SOVEREIGN USA with ZERO DEBT!!!
The WHO is a ChiCom supporting globalist cult set on “neutralizing” we free persons they call “useless eaters”!!
Now for you “ape us ….hertz, abc, ape , smith, fred flintstoned, new mexico john, ccc,”
Whatever name that you post bot these rants of your left twisted perversions, it’s all nothingness here to we the majority of the United States of America
Your drivel is NOTHING to us who prosper in the grand blessings of lives that are well lived. We are a free people who can see and hear the good news of every simple yet absolute truth.
Whether it’s about hamburgers or hertz, threatening war or Bible burning, all your moniker perversions are easy to spot as the waste of space that you are: You wackos will always lose the battle you declare against everything righteous and good.
In fact, all who push your sick world view only confirms to the public that you will lose everything you try to steal from we who produce and protect everything of true value.
You always pop back in to spook in the dark just like the demon you are and your perverse comments will be stricken again as they always are.
Thank God and President Trump.
If Donald Trump had not pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, we would have had a globalist nightmare on our hands.
The WHO’s “pandemic accord” is scheduled to be finalized by May 2025: The drafts of that national sovereignty destroying agreement that is planned should be extremely alarming to everyone involved.
The WHO just went along with China’s program as China committed a biological attack on the world. Leaving the WHO was the only rational thing for the U.S. to do. We are much better than those pressuring nations to become Socialist states of a One World Order that would most likely by headed by Communist China.
Too many American citizens died fighting against Communism for the U.S. to be funding a Communist supporting organization.
Thank You.
WHO is dangerous and the U.S. should NEVER go back to it AND WE SHOULD NEVER PARTICIPATE IN ANY OF THEIR PROGRAMS even if we are stuck paying them for a year. Congress needs to pass laws that will protect us from WHO forever. Laws that would prevent any future President joining WHO or any other global org. that would have authority over U.S. citizens are needed.
There will always be evil people who want to rule the world. WHO & the UN today and who knows what tomorrow.
Oh, no, now we have to rely on just the CDC to lie to us during the next pandemic.
A wise move as they WHO continues to promote WOKE policies
Good decision. Enough is enough.
GOOD. They lied to the world about the Chinese virus and its source. They are nothing more than communist agents.
Ya gotta love The Donald.
Victory Hooray