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  •  Maybe you'll consider (none / 0)

    doing it more often. ;-)

    This is an important story about an ongoing and entirely needless tragedy, and I thank you for posting it.

    by moiv on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 07:16:21 PM PDT

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    •  Thank YOU! (none / 1)

      I appreciate your support as well as the information you bring to the table.  I have learned a lot from you about these issues.  If this can help, I am happy.  

      It really takes so little money for so MUCH good.  It is a crime that Bush and "right to life" crowd allow -- and encourage -- it to happen.

      First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi

      by flo58 on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 07:25:12 PM PDT

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      •  They do much worse (4.00 / 3)

        than allow and encourage it. They insist upon it.

        I subscribe to a listserve for women's health care providers worldwide, and there are days when I can hardly bear to read what I find in my mailbox.

        Last year Bush's refusal to fund UNFPA closed 6 clinics in Kenya alone, clinics that provided full-service primary health care in areas so remote that people walked for days to reach them.

        Because part of their mission was family planning -- and since they couldn't afford to establish completely separate facilites for their OB/GYN services to women -- those clinics lost their funding in its entirety. Now there are huge rural populations in Kenya that have no access to any type of health care at all.

        We will never know how many people are dead because of Bush's worldwide pro-"life" crusade.

        by moiv on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 07:46:51 PM PDT

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