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Reducing access to family planning

• On his first day in office, the 28th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Bush restores the Reagan-era global gag rule on international family planning assistance (See also Censoring free speech) - January 22, 2001
• President Bush moves to increase "abstinence-only" education funding - October 11, 2002
• House passes the "Child Custody Protection Act" - April 17, 2002
• Bush administration representatives fight sexuality education and oppose condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention at the UN Children's Summit (see also Replacing science with right-wing ideology) - May 2002
• President Bush withholds $34 million in funding for birth control, maternal and child health care, and HIV/AIDS prevention from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (see also Replacing science with right-wing ideology) - July 22, 2002
• President Bush does an about-face on support of women's rights treaty, The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW - July 26, 2002
• House passes the so-called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" (see also: Building the platform to outlaw abortion) - September 25, 2002
• Bush administration Web sites remove medically accurate information (see also Reducing access to family planning) - October 2002
• HHS announces "abstinence-only" advocate to oversee nation's family planning program (see also Replacing science with right-wing ideology) - October 7, 2002
• Bush administration reverses U.S. position in support of 1994 global agreement that affirms the right of all couples and individuals to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so (United Nations, 1994) (see also Censoring free speech) - November 2, 2002.

Building the platform to outlaw abortion

• House passes the "Child Custody Protection Act" (see also Reducing access to family planning) - April 17, 2002
• House passes the so-called "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" (see also Redefining the legal status of the foetus) - April 26, 2001
• President Bush does an about-face on support of women's rights treaty, The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (see also Reducing access to family planning) - July 26, 2002
• House passes the so-called "Abortion Non-Discrimination Act" (see also Redefining the legal status of the foetus) - September 25, 2002
• Bush administration gives embryos new status in the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection Charter - October 2002
• Bush Administration Advances position that life begins at conception at regional population conference in Asia - December 11-17, 2002

Replacing science with right-wing ideology

• President Bush considers nominating John Klink - an ardent opponent of birth control and a spokesperson for the Vatican's opposition to condom use - to oversee the United States' global population program - May 23, 2001
• House passes the "Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001" - July 31, 2001
• President Bush prevents taxpayer funding for additional stem cells beyond existing stem cell lines, placing severe limits on stem cell research - August 9, 2001
• President Bush moves to increase "abstinence-only" education funding - October 11, 2001
• Bush administration representatives fight sexuality education and oppose condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention at the UN Children's Summit (see also Reducing access to family planning) - May 2002
• President Bush withholds $34 million in funding for birth control, maternal and child health care, and HIV/AIDS prevention from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (see also Reducing access to family planning) - July 22, 2002
• President Bush withholds more than $200 million in funding for programs to support women and address HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan - August 2, 2002
• President Bush Freezes $3 million in funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in response to anti-choice objections to the WHO's human reproduction research program - October 2002
• Bush administration Web sites remove medically accurate information (see also Censoring free speech, Reducing access to family planning) - October 2002
• HHS announces "abstinence-only" advocate to oversee nation's family planning program (see also Reducing access to family planning) - October 7, 2002
• Family planning foe Rep. Chris Smith calls on USAID to exclude reproductive health organisations in developing countries from receiving HIV/AIDS funding - October 24, 2002

Censoring free speech

• Bush administration Web sites remove medically accurate information - October 2002
• Bush administration reverses U.S. position in support of 1994 global agreement that affirms the right of all couples and individuals to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so (United Nations, 1994) (see also Reducing access to family planning) - November 2, 2002
• The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site posted "revised" fact sheet downplaying condom effectiveness - December 2, 2002
• At an international conference in Bangkok, U.S. officials demanded the deletion of a recommendation for "consistent condom use" to fight AIDS and sexual diseases. One study by the University of California at Berkeley found condom distribution to be astonishingly cost-effective, costing just $3.50 per year of life saved. In contrast, antiretroviral therapy cost almost $1,050. Yet the U.S. is now donating only 300 million condoms annually, down from about 800 million at the end of the first President Bush's term.
• with thanks to Planned Parenthood Federation of America www.plannedparenthood.org
• IPPF is the largest voluntary organisation working towards healthier sexual and reproductive lives for everyone. Founded 50 years ago in India, IPPF now works in 182 countries to fight against poverty, ignorance and misery by providing more people with choices about their lives, offering sexual and reproductive health and family planning information and services, and working to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other infections.

What do you expect from a born-again South Baptist?

Man do i have stories for you from my meeting at SXSW on 03/08 with someone who knows the inner Bush circle...

The Southern Baptists are the ONLY x-tian org that supports this war.

Let's see the Family's money comes from Oil but also Nazi Slave Labor but he doesn't bat an eye speaking at a Holcaust remeberence service. He's a C student who went to Harvard and Yale cuz dad was a senator yet he's against Affirmative Action cuz its preferential treatment. He overturns Affirmative Action policies at Texas universites. He doesn't mind executing retarded prisoner's with bro Jeb wants to limit appeals process for death-row inmates though they both know full well quite a few of them had only half ass representation from PD's to begin with. Doesn't believe in evolution claims to speak with authority on stem cell research and cloning issues. Had dealings with Bin laden's just prior to attack, helped Bin Laden relatives out of the country just after. Takes money from Bob Jones, declares war on St. Patricks day starts it on St. Joesph's. In 1999 shot down Hate Crimes Act brought up by families of James Byrd and Matthew Shepard, because it would have protected homosexuals. Gives Iraq (practically) to Haliburton Cheney's old company. *cough Patriot Act, Texas poorest air and water quality in the nation. Throw in the repeated f' yous to the U.N. and the rest of the world (let's start by calling the thing a crusade) he's all you could ever want in a President. I know I missed a couple favorites, post your own.