NYT: US...Trying to Isolate UN Population Unit (abortion issue!)

[DeepModem Mom]

U.S. Is Accused of Trying to Isolate U.N. Population Unit
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS

Published: June 21, 2004


WASHINGTON, June 20 - The Bush administration, which cut off its share of financing two years ago to the United Nations agency handling population control, is seeking to isolate the agency from groups that work with it in China and elsewhere, United Nations officials and diplomats say.

Pressed by opponents of abortion, the administration withdrew its support from a major international conference on health issues this month and has privately warned other groups, like Unicef, that address health issues that their financing could be jeopardized if they insist on working with the agency, the United Nations Population Fund.

The administration also has indicated that it hopes to persuade the United Nations' Latin American caucus to back away from a common position on population and development that was adopted in Santiago, Chile, in March on the grounds that the document's discussion of reproductive rights could be interpreted as promoting abortion.

The actions are part of an administration effort to ensure that international agencies and private groups do not promote abortions overseas. In its first days in office, the Bush administration reintroduced the Reagan-era that critics call the "global gag rule," which denies money to groups that even discuss abortion as an option, except in cases that threaten life or involve rape or incest....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/politics/21popu.html

[jsw_81]

1. Yet another reason to vote for Kerry

The far-right has hijacked our government to such an extent that the United States is now routinely aligning itself with Islamic theocracies on issues like family planning. It sounds hard to believe, but it's true.

We simply cannot allow these lunatics to have another term!

[alittlelark]

2. Just a paranoid wine -induced thought........

If a group that 'fed off of misery' wanted to create the maximum amount of misery - how would they do it???

Yea

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Have a glass for me, lark (mid-morning in my time zone) --

we need it!

[alittlelark]

5. my glass just got emptied

and I'm snoozin' in seconds

it's Fathers Day.. and the daddy-dude of my kids just finished the literature for his trip , and is leaving in 5 hours.

I must make him happy before he goes!

Naughty night!

[bleedingheart]

3. Once again proving that conservatives can't stay out of people's business

I laugh every time they proclaim they want less government influence in your life....bah. They aren't happy unless they know what size underwear you have on and whether or not you have a good credit rating.