Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Daily Reproductive Health Report
Abortion-Rights Groups Criticize Bush Adviser for Statements About March for Women's Lives, Sept.11
Abortion-rights supporters on Tuesday criticized Karen Hughes -- one of President Bush's advisers -- for comments she made about the March for Women's Lives and Sept. 11 on Sunday during an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition," Reuters reports (Zabarenko, Reuters, 4/27). More than 500,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for the march, which was the first major abortion-rights rally in the district since 1992 and was inspired by a political climate that organizers say is threatening abortion rights more than ever before (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 4/27). In response to "Late Edition" Host Wolf Blitzer's question about how important the abortion-rights issue would be for this year's presidential election, Hughes said, "I think after Sept. 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life." She added that such policies are the "kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life." She said, "It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Hughes said that "our enemies in the terror network, as we're seeing repeatedly in the headlines these days, don't value any life, not even the innocent and not even their own" (Balz, Washington Post, 4/28).
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Valuing life more? FUCK YOU.
You value human life, do you? Like the lives of the Iraqis your administration has killed tens of thousands of?
We absolutely do not agree on the reasons and best method to reduce the number of abortions. Abstinence-only sexual education has got to go, because it in fact causes more unwanted pregnancies, and therefore MORE abortions. Parental consent and notification laws as a way of reducing the number of abortions is just sick, if that means that the parents will put undue pressure on a teenager or younger girl to carry a pregnancy to term and become a mother against her will.
Women must be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to carry a particular pregnancy to term. Period. End.
Abortion-rights supporters on Tuesday criticized Karen Hughes -- one of President Bush's advisers -- for comments she made about the March for Women's Lives and Sept. 11 on Sunday during an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition," Reuters reports (Zabarenko, Reuters, 4/27). More than 500,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for the march, which was the first major abortion-rights rally in the district since 1992 and was inspired by a political climate that organizers say is threatening abortion rights more than ever before (Kaiser Daily Reproductive Health Report, 4/27). In response to "Late Edition" Host Wolf Blitzer's question about how important the abortion-rights issue would be for this year's presidential election, Hughes said, "I think after Sept. 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life." She added that such policies are the "kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life." She said, "It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Hughes said that "our enemies in the terror network, as we're seeing repeatedly in the headlines these days, don't value any life, not even the innocent and not even their own" (Balz, Washington Post, 4/28).
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Valuing life more? FUCK YOU.
You value human life, do you? Like the lives of the Iraqis your administration has killed tens of thousands of?
We absolutely do not agree on the reasons and best method to reduce the number of abortions. Abstinence-only sexual education has got to go, because it in fact causes more unwanted pregnancies, and therefore MORE abortions. Parental consent and notification laws as a way of reducing the number of abortions is just sick, if that means that the parents will put undue pressure on a teenager or younger girl to carry a pregnancy to term and become a mother against her will.
Women must be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to carry a particular pregnancy to term. Period. End.
