Bush pimp-slaps the anti-abortion rights mob
I call them the "anti-abortion rights mob" instead of the pro-life movement because they don't strike me as being pro-life.
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The Bushistas weave reelection activities throughout their taxpayer funded activities…some of those activities are only thinly-masked campaigning…so this strikes me as straight up hypocrisy and cowardice, brought on the the unexpected (to the closed-minded) success of the recent pro-choice march.Event organizers have planned for one day of the event to focus on lobbying members of Congress and the Bush administration representative told the Washington Times that funding such activity is a misuse of taxpayer dollars.
The Times reports that USAID has planned to spend $190,000 on the conference.
The free market solution, of course, is to pay for it your damn self. I mean, if overriding people's personal decisions is all that important to you.
Bush Admin. Scraps Agency's Plans to Back Pro-Abortion Conference
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 26, 2004
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just one day after a few hundred thousand abortion advocates gathered in the nation's capital, the Bush administration is pulling the plug on a federal agency's plan to support an international conference that is backing abortion.
The Global Health Council, which is organizing the four-day conference, expected to receive support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The "reproductive health" conference features several pro-abortion groups and other political groups that are spending millions to defeat Bush, which led the Bush administration to scrap the funding plans.
"We expect they will be notified officially" today, a senior government official told the Washington Times. "The conference has increasingly moved from a teaching forum to a platform for expressing partisan political views."
