At 03:12 AM 3/6/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote:
>By Frances Kissling, 3/4/2003
For those of you who don't know, Frances Kissling is head of the liberal,
political activist group "Catholics For a Free Choice," which works to
overturn the Catholic position on abortion. Kissling, and most members
of her groups, have been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
>Family planning is not just handing out contraceptives, and neither is
>fighting HIV/AIDS. Central elements in both are education on reproductive
>health care, safe sexual practices, and pre- and postnatal care for
>mothers and their babies.
Unless, of course, they just kill the baby instead.
> Effective programs in both promote a woman's
>right to decide the number and spacing of her children,
And Bush will support those organizations that don't use abortion as a form
of birth control.
>On the contrary, the initiative would expect women to visit separate
>facilities for family planning and for HIV/AIDS education and services.
Wrong again.... he would just expect women to visit separate facilities for
ABORTIONS, not family planning.
>Where AIDS victims are stigmatized, many who are now treated quietly at
>family planning clinics would be forced either to go public or go without
>assistance.
Or, stop offering abortions.
>Meanwhile, given the president's belief that religious groups are the
>best providers of social services, we can expect they will be favored
>recipients of the funds. Will evangelical Christian groups who still
>believe that homosexuality is a sin that can be cured by prayer
>proliferate? Will Catholic groups that abhor family planning offer
>anything that prevents AIDS other than abstinence?
This is pure rumour and innuendo, but of course, Kissling had to get her
trademark cheapshot in on the Catholic Church.
>The administration's agenda seems clear: to defund secular, tolerant
>providers of health care and family planning worldwide in favor of
>religious groups that will likely choose whom to treat and how to treat
>them based more on ideology than medicine. Dear President Bush: I write
>you yet again to urge you to reconsider this latest assault on women. You
>can and must do better.
Ahhh..... the kicker. After simply speculating in the previous paragraph
that this program is simply about funding right-wing religious groups, in
the next paragraph, she suddenly declares that this "agenda is clear."
How did that happen over the course of one paragraph??????
Anyhow, any secular, tolerant provider of health care that services all
women and all children will be happily funded by Bush's program. Its only
those that discriminate, especially among some children as opposed to
others that won't be elgible for funds. Fortunately, there are plenty
groups that will be elgible for this program such that the money won't be
going to waste.
JDG
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"The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
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