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"Harry Hope" |
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23 Jul 2006 02:38:30 PM |
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Republican government-funded anti-choice facilities |
From The St. Petersburg Times, 7/23/06:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/23/Columns/Our_tax_dollars_at_wo.shtml
Our tax dollars at work funding antiabortion bunk
By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist
If you're willing to lie, deceive and intimidate others for your
beliefs, the Christian Right needs you to staff the nation's Crisis
Pregnancy Centers.
A new congressional study exposes what goes on in these centers for
what it is:
religiously grounded antiabortion stagecraft designed to lure
vulnerable, pregnant women and use lies to scare them out of ending
their pregnancy.
So what is the government doing funding them?
There are about 4,000 CPCs in the country, compared to 2,000 abortion
clinics.
The CPCs are often affiliated with fundamentalist and evangelical
religious organizations and churches.
Their modus operandi is to appear to be a legitimate medical facility,
like a Planned Parenthood clinic - in fact they are often in the same
buildings or shopping centers as abortion clinics, hoping to confuse
clients.
But when unsuspecting women, usually young and low-income, come in for
a free pregnancy test or ultrasound, they are bombarded with
antiabortion propaganda that has little relationship to medical truth.
Since 2001, and President Bush's push to redirect tax money to
faith-based institutions, the CPCs have received more than $30-million
in federal funds, much of it for abstinence-only education, but some
for strengthening their operations.
Florida spends $2-million a year for a "pregnancy support" hot line
that directs women to CPCs, and some of the state's "Choose Life"
license plate money goes to the centers.
That's millions of tax dollars underwriting religiously motivated
fraud that can adversely impact women's lives and health.
A new congressional study, requested by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.,
found that 20 of 23 federally funded centers investigated used a
variety of well-worn scare tactics.
Female congressional staffers who called pretending to be 17 and
possibly pregnant were told by CPC counselors that abortion
significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, future infertility
and suffering "postabortion syndrome."
It's all bunk.
A 1997 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found no
causal relationship between abortion and breast cancer, consistent
with the overwhelming consensus of the medical community.
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The usual rightard subterfuge.
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Book of Job (Was Republican government-funded anti-choice facilities) |
23 Jul 2006 04:59:01 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The St. Petersburg Times, 7/23/06:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/23/Columns/Our_tax_dollars_at_wo.shtml
If you're willing to lie, deceive and intimidate others for your
beliefs, the Christian Right needs you to staff the nation's Crisis
Pregnancy Centers.
In the classical Christanic mythologies, in the Book of Job, there's
a commandment against "lying for the lord." It's one of the many
commandments that Christians ignore.
---
"So, Mister Horse, how well do you think Custer
performed in this fine sporting event this evening?"
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| User: "the_blogologist" |
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| Title: Re: Republican government-funded anti-choice facilities |
23 Jul 2006 08:11:49 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
So what is the government doing funding them?
Making some attempt to be fair and balanced against the government
funding of abortion?
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| User: "Kevin Cunningham" |
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| Title: Re: Republican government-funded anti-choice facilities |
24 Jul 2006 03:35:02 PM |
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"the_blogologist" <nobody@nowheres.com> wrote in message
news:1hixwwb.w4hxekxx5dwN%nobody@nowheres.com...
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
So what is the government doing funding them?
Making some attempt to be fair and balanced against the government
funding of abortion?
Fair and balanced is just a verbal tool for you right wingers to actually
say, we win. "We want to be fair and balanced". No, actually you fruits
want your way, period.
Abortion is no longer government funded or, face facts, government
protected. The far right has tried to recruit murderers to kill doctors and
staff. So how fair and balanced is that?
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