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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Street who wrote (125230)	2/4/2001 3:45:55 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

,<< don't want my tax dollars paying for killing babies. Period.>> YOUR DOLLARS WILL NOT GO TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS, AND HAVE NOT DONE SO SINCE 1973! From the article, which you evidently didn't read: Mr. Bush's press secretary, Ari Fleischer, explaining the decision, said, "The president does not support using taxpayer funds to provide abortions." But that was a non sequitur. Government funding of abortions abroad has been prohibited by law since 1973. The Bush rule says that clinics in developing countries will lose U.S. funds if they even discuss abortion with their patients. What it means on the ground is this: A woman who has AIDS comes to a clinic somewhere in Africa or Asia. Drugs to prevent transmission of the disease to newborn infants are not available there. She desperately wants to avoid bearing the child. But the doctor or nurse cannot advise her on a safe, legal abortion if the clinic wants to keep its American funds. And of course you write <<<The problem with AIDS in Africa is because people are having unprotected sex. >>> Many family planning groups, knowing that women will not understand a refusal to discuss abortion, will decide to give up U.S. support. That will have drastic consequences, because U.S. dollars may provide most of the contraceptives. The result? Families will not get contraceptives. Without them, more people will be infected with H.I.V. — and in due course develop AIDS. It seems simple enough. They need contraceptives. The gag order will keep many from getting them. nytimes.com