--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,761987,00.html
> 
> Bush pulls plug on UN family planning funds 
<snip> 
> The decision also has been made just weeks after the
> US attended the
> international Aids summit in Barcelona. In addition
> to its duties in
> cutting maternal death and illness, providing women
> with the opportunity
> to control their reproduction, and giving medical
> care to infants and
> children, UNFPA has provided frontline Aids
> prevention in 142 countries.
> Those programmes, too, will be cut...

Translation: deaths will increase.  
As abstinence is not an option for so many women in
developing nations, this is medically unjustifiable.  

Debbi

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day
http://shopping.yahoo.com
_______________________________________________
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Reply via email to