It just can't get any more unbelievable. If the 1600 Crew spends any more pandering to the Religious Right wingnut-morons, they're going to move Fortress 1600 into the caves next to the Dead Sea and start wearing robes and sandals...
President Bush ordered the State Department on Friday to withhold U.S. family planning help from overseas groups that promote or perform abortions with their own money.
The decision expands an order issued two years ago that applied only to family planning money administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, a division of the State Department.
...
"At this time, the face of HIV/AIDS in Africa is a young woman, and family planning services are integral," said Terri Bartlett, vice president of Population Action International, a research-based advocacy group in Washington. "They are all reproductive health care services."
Said Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund: "The world's poorest women and their children again are bearing the brunt of Bush's obsession with appeasing his domestic political base. This is the real face of Bush's compassionate conservatism."
Never mind that these services do more than provide information or services for abortions, they also provide information and services for diseases, like HIV/AIDS. But, you know, it's too bad that they are poor and living in countries than depend on us for assistance. As long as Jerry, Pat and Frankln can collect dollars, keep their mansions and trappings of wealth and power on the backs of their fellow human beings, they are pretty happy campers...and President Campaign-Dollar-Slut is just the mouse to help them. With the stroke of his pen...
