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Sat 17 Apr, 2004 01:09 am
One of President Bush's first actions in office, which set the tone for how the President would deal with women's rights, was to reinstate the Reagan-era Global Gag Rule, also known as the Mexico City Policy, prohibits "foreign non-governmental organizations that receive U.S. funds from speaking out for or against abortion laws or from providing legal abortion services, even if they use only their own funds or are engaging in democratic policy debate in their own countries."
Women's eNews reports that it
has led to closed clinics, cuts in healthcare staff and dwindling medical supplies, leaving women, children and families without access to vital healthcare services, according to a report released yesterday by policy opponents.
Family planning services are essential, yet any institution that so much as says the word 'abortion' is not eligible for funding. This stringent rule, designed to prevent women from having full knowledge of medical options, then effects other other health services as medical practitioners excercise their backbone and refuse to certify they will comply with the rule, knowing it will cost them US funding. My question to President Bush today is: Is stopping the spread of knowledge about medical options really more important to you than providing people with medical treatment?
It's his typical pandering to the arseholes of fundamentalism.
Another gift of charity the world has suffered at the hands of the evangelical Christian faith. .
It's not the result that counts, it's how it plays in Rottencrotch, Georgia.
Would you have objected if he had imposed the same rules on organizations promoting pro-life, pro off shore drilling, pro logging in old growth forest (for such a very few examples) ?
He campaigned and was absolutely clear in his conviction that U.S. taxpayer funds would not be used to promote abortions. He believes abortion is wrong. He is not interested in overturning Roe v Wade, and he has kept his campaign promise. (Rare among politicians these days it seems.)
Foxfyre, for once, just once, could you please talk about the actual topic/policy being discussed here.
We're talking about a very specific issue here. You can either attempt defend the president's actions on these issues or you can just admit that as far as this specific issue is concerned, Bush is wrong, plain and simple.
I'm not a liberal, neither are a lot of the people on here.
So instead of distracting us from the issue being brought up here, why don't you stick to topic?
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