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

To: DOUG H who wrote (256580)	5/18/2002 8:33:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'm sure your concern extends beyond the seat at your computer. I've called the White House and my congressmans's offices, (the one in D.C. and his local office.) It's not much, but it does entail going "beyond the seat of your computer." This is how you call the WH line for expressing your opinion, in case there's anybody who's never done it: 202-456-1111 To email, it's: president@whitehouse.gov BTW, what the piece fails to mention is exactly why it is the responibility of US taxpayers to foot the bill. Perhaps you can address that. All of us taxpayers have priorities, and have ideas about what we want our country and president to stand for. "More genital mutilation, more AIDS and more fistula" is not what I want mine to stand for. The question is, really, why President Bush is blocking the 34 million dollars that was appropriated. Isn't he the compassionate conservative president? Or is he just another politician??? The critics falsely portray the issue as one of abortion. In fact, the population fund does not support abortion services; on the contrary, the cutoff of $34 million could result in an additional 800,000 abortions per year because of less contraception available. The reality is that the population fund is active not only in providing contraception but also in waging a lonely struggle to oppose female genital mutilation, the spread of AIDS and the scourge of mothers dying in childbirth. It surprises me, actually, that any normal human being could read that article and respond as you have. continued...

To: DOUG H who wrote (256580)	5/18/2002 8:36:18 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

BTW, what the piece fails to mention is exactly why it is the responibility of US taxpayers to foot the bill. Perhaps you can address that. The reason the president is blocking those funds is not because it isn't "the responsibility of the US taxpayers to foot the bill." Read the article more closely. Message 17486477 Here's some doomed social engineering I'm going to have to foot the bill for. $350 million worth. With 1/10 of that, we could do a great deal to provide contraception and fistula-ending prenatal care to teenagers like Aisha Idris. After three days of labor, the baby was born dead and Mrs. Idris had suffered a fistula: the tearing of her rectum, urethra and vagina, leaving her incontinent and causing bodily wastes to seep through her vaginal canal and down her legs. As with hundreds of thousands of other women in the developing world who have fistula, Mrs. Idris's clothes were constantly wet and soiled, and her husband promptly divorced her. ''People were saying things behind my back, and some insulted me to my face,'' Mrs. Idris said, speaking in a catatonic whisper. Now 19, she has lived with this nightmare for five years and spent her family's entire savings, $80, on two failed operations. ''This is a 100 percent preventable problem,''... Useless Social Engineering That Is Pouring Money Down A Rathole But I Have To Pay For It Anyway: The bill approved by the House includes up to $300 million per year for experiments promoting marriage and extends a $50 million program promoting abstinence from sex until marriage. Subject 52926 "Experiments promoting marriage" $300 mil? Give me a break. "Abstinence from sex" in this culture that bombards us with sexual images a thousand a day? Very realistic. We all have our priorities. I'd rather pay taxes toward the 34 million for ending fistula and genital mutilation than toward 300 million for "experiments in promoting marriage." You and I are different, of course.