(Concord Monitor)Kerry: Bush pushing pro-life agenda in Iraq

[DJcairo]

This it an outrage. I'm glad Kerry blew the whistle on this. (Add this to the list, Iran-Contra, BCCI, The Klamath River Basin, etc. These are all issues Kerry has been responsible for bringing to the public's attention) Oh those Washington Insiders. They just don't do a goddamn thing do they?

White House bars pro-choice doctors, he says
By JENNIFER SKALKA
Monitor staff


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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said yesterday that the White House has forbidden pro-choice American doctors from working in Iraq.

"Do you know that the Bush administration screened doctors to go to Iraq, and anyone who was pro-choice was not allowed to be part of the team to go to Iraq?" Kerry said during a "meet the candidate" event in Concord. "They even let their politics and ideology get in the way of the most fundamental kinds of delivery of services."

Kerry's remarks came during a 90-minute lunchtime chat with local supporters and residents. About 70 people turned out at the City Auditorium to hear Kerry's views about everything from health care to civil unions to nuclear proliferation. Yesterday was Kerry's last in a five-day trip to the state.

The senator's comment about pro-choice doctors was lifted from a recent Newsweek article, according to Judy Reardon, a Kerry campaign spokeswoman. The magazine's Oct. 6 story quotes an unnamed staffer on a retired lieutenant general's staff. That individual told Newsweek that the vetting process to determine which officials should go to Iraq "got so bad that even doctors sent to restore medical services had to be anti-abortion."

A White House spokesman declined to address Kerry's remarks, passing the buck to the Bush/Cheney re-election office in Virginia. A spokesman for the campaign, however, also turned down a request for comment, referring a reporter to the Republican National Committee. Heather Layman, a spokeswoman for the RNC, told the Monitor that "anonymous quotes in the press hardly account for administration policy."

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/front2003/101503_kerry_in_concord_2003.shtml

[flamingyouth]

1. A pro-life agenda in Iraq? After killing 10,000 or more?

Irony, thy name is Bush.

[CarlBallard]

3. Well when you're a Republican life ends with birth.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Keep the pressure on John - We will Beat Bush!

[sandnsea]

4. Read my post, this is so important

We think of abortion as just a woman's right to choose. But we have got to stop and remember first and foremost it's a medical necessity. Doctors no longer have to learn to do an abortion and many don't because it means a few hours extra sleep from not having to take the course or however they learn this. So it is quite possible that if you don't have pro-choice doctors that you actually don't have doctors with the knowledge and experience to do an abortion to save a woman's life.

Here's a great article on the topic and I really hope everybody takes the time to read it.

http://www.drl.tcu.edu/PoB/PoB_Lectures/social_cognition/attitudes/Who_Will_Do_Abortions.htm

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Kerry, ahead of the curve on progressive issues (as usual)

and the Dean crowd just scoffs at him. Sad.

[Larkspur]

7. Dean has been consistantly pro-choice and would see Bush's

banishment as an extension of a far rightwing ideology that Dean has been railing against for a long time.

However, am glad that Kerry attacked Bush on this. Now what will he do in the senate about it?

[JI7]

6. VERY important

i considerthis one of the most important issues in this country when you look at the supreme court. john kerry has promised he would not appoint anyone who is anti choice.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

8. The RW prefering idealogy to science, common sense or compassion, again