Bush’s Parting Shot On Women’s “Reproductive Rights”
Posted on December 26, 2008
The issue of abortion on demand is one I typically avoid for the most part, except regarding late term and parental notification, but, this one is just was too over the top to ignore
Undermining women’s reproductive rights and access to health care has been a pervasive theme of the outgoing administration. On his first full day in office, President Bush imposed the “global gag rule,” which prohibits taxpayer dollars from going to international family-planning groups that perform abortions using their own funds or that advocate for safe abortion laws.
So, let me see, Bush has, to paraphrase Ann Coulter, undermined a women’s “right” to have casual, irresponsible, unprotected sex with men she doesn’t want to have children with. OK. I wonder if the NY Times, in their editorial, which is, of course, the opinion of the paper, can point to all the laws that Bush has passed? Oh, wait, the Executive can’t actually pass laws, can he. All the Grey Lady can point to is the extension of one law
The law has long allowed doctors and nurses to refuse to participate in an abortion. Mr. Leavitt’s changes elevate the so-called right to refuse beyond reason to an increased number of medical institutions and a broad range of health care workers and services — including abortion referrals, unbiased counseling and provision of emergency contraception, even to rape victims.
The “so-called right to refuse.” Yup. The USSC found a right to abort children, but, the right of people to not be involved with medical procedures and medicines that they completely disagree with is only a “so-called right.” Welcome to Liberal World.
Maybe the editorial page should have consulted with the front page: Expansion of Clinics Shapes a Bush Legacy
Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.
Would this be irony or serendipity?
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Ann Coulter: Is a legal permanent resident of Florida yet votes in Connecticut. Plus her age discrepancies on official documents, her property, the legal actions
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Robert Davis:
And the way that relates to this post is exactly zero. Way to avoid the point of the post because it doesn’t jive with your liberal viewpoint.
It has always seemed odd to me (even when I held very liberal views) that the right to have an abortion is the benchmark of political freedom for many women. What I find even more troubling is that many of those same women seem incapable or unwilling to understand that for many other people the issue of abortion has less to do with her rights than it does the rights of the fetus…who we consider a person with all the rights that come with that distinction.
What has always seemed odd to ME: Where Roe and Doe gave an inch, a mile was taken, with eventually even “Roe” opposed to the mangled outcome of that decision and FIGHTING AGAINST it, lied to and manipulated; where demands lie for a “right to choose,” refusal of the same is forced onto opponents; where there is insistence of being a “choice,” only one “alternative” is offered: Abortion.
Clear as mud.
What kind of country has one party fight and claim a RIGHT to kill babies up to and including the due date?
One infected with immoral liberals.
Morality demands women MUST bear children when they become pregnant, whether by their fathers or brothers, their rapists or gang rapists.
If they bring dishonor to the family, morality requires they die.
G-D has spoken.