Posted on 01/28/2002 11:07:00 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:37:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Some House members are stepping up efforts to persuade the White House to withhold federal money from the United Nations Population Fund, which they say has supported forced abortions and other coercive practices by the Chinese government.
"By operating in China, spending money there, and defending the Chinese population control system, the UNFPA clearly supports a program of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization," states a letter that a bipartisan group of House members plan to send to the president later this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
We are merely asking Bush to be neutral on the issue by not funding the enemy. Also, in these times of tight budgets, what better way for a fiscal conservative to save a quick $34 million.
It would appear to be a no brainer. Why then the hesitation?
A bump to that. I can't understand this hesitation. If he can't act pro-life when he has complete discretion how does he expect our support next election?
Exactly. No one can blame the Democrats in the Senate for Bush's inaction and no one can blame the constraints of Roe. This one is purely up to Bush.
I don't even see a down side for Bush politically if he does the right thing. It is not the type of hot button issue that will rally the other side. If his knees are wobbly over this, wait until he has to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
State of the Union: Will Bush Give a Status Report on the Human
Right to Life, CWA Asks
To: National Desk
Contact: Rebecca L. Riggs of Concerned Women for America,
202-488-7000
Web: www.media.cwfa.org
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was
released today by Concerned Women for America:
President Bush will give his State of the Union address to
the nation on Jan. 29. He has an opportunity to give a status
report on the right to life for unborn children in America.
President Ronald Reagan had a tradition of addressing efforts
to restore protection to unborn children in his State of the
Union and inaugural addresses. He said in his 1986 State of the
Union address, "We are a nation of idealists, yet today there is
a wound in our national conscience; America will never be whole
as long as the right to life granted by our Creator is denied to
the unborn. For the rest of my time, I shall do what I can to
see that this wound is one day healed."
Concerned Women for America (CWA) and the Culture of Life
Foundation & Institute (CLF&I) identified key issues that Bush
could highlight in a recent informal survey of pro-life groups.
Major items on the pro-life agenda this year include:
-- A ban on Partial-Birth Abortion
-- Legislation to stop the cloning of human beings
-- Cessation of experiments that cause the death of embryos
-- An amendment to end funding of abortionists through the
federal family planning program
-- De-fund the U.N. Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)
for its complicity in China's forced abortion practices.
-- Support for the Helms-Hart Amendment to prevent
distribution in schools of the "morning after" pill.
-- Spirited defense of Pregnancy Care Centers, with federal
assistance to help them provide state-of-the-art
ultrasound imaging for expectant mothers and fathers.
"The outstanding item of old business on the pro-life agenda
is enactment of a ban on partial-birth abortions. Congress voted
to outlaw this barbarous practice six years ago, but met a stone
wall in President Clinton's veto," said Michael Schwartz, CWA's
vice president for government relations. "There is, clearly, a
national consensus against the horrible practice of killing
babies by stabbing them in the head during delivery. You would
go to jail for doing that to a cat."
Groups surveyed included Eagle Forum, Prison Fellowship's
Wilberforce Forum, and the American Family Association.
---
Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public
policy women's organization.
KEYWORDS:
ABORTION, GOVERNMENT
http://www.usnewswire.com
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