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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (360959)	2/18/2003 5:02:28 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Surge in world abortions: "...Now, alas, President Bush is also trying to be a foreign policy idealist — from the right — and is showing the same cavalier obtuseness to practical consequences." "Mr. Bush is, for example, outraged at the way the Chinese government sometimes forces peasants to have abortions. Fair enough. But his solution was to cut off all $34 million in U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, leading to the cancellation of programs in Africa to train midwives, fight AIDS and help pregnant women. The upshot is that women and babies are dying in Africa because of Mr. Bush's idealism." "Many conservatives are deeply sincere in their revulsion for abortion. But they have blindly pursued moralistic policies — like cutting funds for family planning, undermining sex education and stigmatizing condoms — that lead to more abortions. The U.N. estimates that cutting the money for the Population Fund will lead to 800,000 more abortions per year." Message 18596713