July 5, 2004

IF WE DON'T KILL THEM, WHO WILL?:

Expendable Women (NY Times, 7/05/04)

[T]he administration's targeting of the Population Fund is not really about abortion. It is an attack on comprehensive family planning and women's sexual and reproductive autonomy, driven largely by right-wing ideologues unswervingly opposed to all forms of family planning and contraceptive use. As a result, the United States is helping to deny vulnerable women living in isolated rural areas essential information and services needed to avoid pregnancy and disease.

One would hardly expect the Times to understand this, but conservatives don't actually think of children as diseases to be eradicated.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 5, 2004 11:35 AM
Comments

Touche.

Posted by: Matt at July 5, 2004 11:24 PM

Actually if the left were preaching outright
Eugenics in the third world they might actually
get more supporters amongst the general U.S.
public.

Posted by: J.H. at July 6, 2004 9:17 AM

Baal-Moloch, move over.

Mother Gaia (TM) must have her child sacrifices.

Posted by: Ken at July 6, 2004 12:58 PM

There is a middle ground here that makes sense.

Babies may not be diseases, but in much of the world, giving birth is the most dangerous thing a person can do.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at July 7, 2004 1:20 AM

So, do they need pre-natal care or abortions?

Posted by: Robert Duquette at July 7, 2004 11:20 AM
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