Tag: Bush

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also voiced her objections saying that the proposal represents "a sustained pattern of the Bush administration to reject medical and sound science in favor of a misguided ideology that has no place in our government" (via the International Herald Tribune).

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorializes against the Bush Administration's proposal saying that "it's more important than ever for our courts and Congress to protect our right to access Plan B".  

The Senate has reauthorized the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, including several provisions - one of which will end the ban on immigration and travel to the U.S. by people with HIV, and another which will unfortunately increase the amount of funding required to go toward ineffective abstinence and fidelity programs (via the LA Times).

The Politico says that John McCain's offensive and sexist `jokes' are out of touch with today's voters and especially likely to alienate women.

President Bush follows his decision to withhold funding for UNFPA for the seventh straight year with a threat to dramatically expand and twist the interpretation of the Kemp-Kasten amendment - which prohibits U.S. funding to organizations that support coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization - by using it to deny funding to any organization operating a health program in China (via RH Reality Check).  

The Seattle Times reports that anti-choice congressman Dave Reichert's re-election may depend on convincing voters that he is a moderate, but notably glosses over his extreme anti-contraception views.

Bush has used his Oval Office years to limit reproductive freedom and stack critical posts with right-wingers bent on rolling back the clock.

And now it appears yet another reactionary Bush appointee is on track to get a lifetime position as a federal judge...

The Colorado Supreme Court has cleared the way for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person. If approved by voters, the measure would give fertilized eggs the state constitutional protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process (via The Bellingham Herald).  

The Stranger reports that pharmacy owners Stormans Inc., whose lawsuit against the state has resulted in the injunction permitting pharmacists to refuse to fill legal prescriptions, was a major contributor to Rossi in 2004.  

The Guttmacher Institute has just released a report which shows that state-mandated counseling requirements - so-called 'informed consent' laws - attempt to influence rather than inform women's abortion decisions.