Women's Health Group: Bush Too Christian

Newsmax.com ^ | 1/6/03 | Carl Limbacher

[truthandlife]

Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute Vice President Douglas Sylva reports that international pro-abortion activists are very concerned about President Bush's "fundamentalist Christian ideology."

Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), has told the Fulbright Conference on Health and Foreign Policy in Berlin that the Bush administration is destroying international health care programs.

Charging that the Bush administration’s efforts are ruining the lives of women, the head of the prominent pro-abortion nongovernmental organization called on the nations of Europe to pressure the United Nations to "counter and redress harm done by current U.S. policies.”

Germain complained that the White House "supports and promotes only those civil society organizations that share and promote…its own fundamentalist Christian ideology, and its correspondingly rigid conservative world view.”

"The ideology of the White House," she warned, "extends far beyond abortion politics. In endangers condoms use and family planning…sexuality education, the human rights of women, religious tolerance, and even freedom of speech.”

Though the massive distribution of condoms throughout sub-Sahara Africa has done little to stem the spread of AIDS, Germain said she feared the failed program may be scaled back.

"Because faith-based groups that are against condom use - most often Roman Catholic and conservative Protestant groups – are by far the largest health service providers across sub-Saharan Africa and in Haiti," she contended," they will likely get most of the $8 billion allocated for HIV/AIDS treatment under the Global AIDS initiative.

"Imagine what this will do to condom access – and also what it will do for their ability to help the Bush administration impose its ideology on these countries and their citizens.”

In order to counter Bush's policies, Germain urged the European Union to rachet up its funding of U.N. agencies and begin to exert its influence.

"Europeans can take a firm stance in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights, as donors to and as executive board members of U.N. agencies, the World Bank, the Global Fund, and other international bodies,” she advised.

[farmer18th]

Though the massive distribution of condoms throughout sub-Sahara Africa has done little to stem the spread of AIDS

Case closed. Next. Bring in the missionaries.

[2banana]

Though the massive distribution of condoms throughout sub-Sahara Africa has done little to stem the spread of AIDS, Germain said she feared the failed program may be scaled back.

I love it - a program doesn't work and we are afraid it may be "scaled back."

International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)

Why does always "women's health" = unrestricted accesss to abortion. Are there not any other women's health issues?

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Charging that the Bush administration’s efforts are ruining the lives of women,

Go ask the women in Afghanistan and Iraq and eventually the entire Muslim world what they think about abortion and Bush!!

It's women's choices that are ruining their own lives!

[Abynormal]

Great. Let the EU pass out the condoms. So what is her problem?

[jtminton]

Germain complained that the White House "supports and promotes only those civil society organizations that share and promote…its own fundamentalist Christian ideology, and its correspondingly rigid conservative world view.”

Dance with the one that brung ya! Oh wait, I guess that would be MOST OF AMERICA! They are only "fundamentalist" and "rigid" if you don't agree with them.

[Question_Assumptions]

Germain complained that the White House "supports and promotes only those civil society organizations that share and promote...its own fundamentalist Christian ideology, and its correspondingly rigid conservative world view."

<sarcasm>Leftist organizations, of course, are not "rigid".</sarcasm>

[Norman Conquest]

Why do "pro-choice" groups fight for financial support for forced abortion programs in places such as China?

[Sender]

Bush's "fundamentalist Christian ideology"...ruining the lives of women...

don'cha just hate it when Christian values ruin your life?

[JustPlainJoe]

What?!? When did George say he was going to outlaw condoms?
Did I miss something?

Ohhhhh, she means that more people will actually have to dip into their cigarette/liquor/crack money to PAY for their OWN condoms....How awful. Impeach Bush now!!!

[r9etb]

"The ideology of the White House," she warned, "extends far beyond abortion politics."

Perhaps -- but Ms. Germain's ideology does not. What an empty soul she must have, to devote her life to killing the unborn.

[Prime Choice]

Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute Vice President Douglas Sylva reports that international pro-abortion activists are very concerned about President Bush's "fundamentalist Christian ideology."

Here's something for the pro-aborts to ponder: you can either stick with the "fundamentalist Christian" Bush, or you can vote for a Democrat...and ultimately wind up answering to a fundamentalist Islamic ideology.

Hint: the Islamists won't give a camel's f@rt what you think...but they'll kill you for thinking it.

[RonF]

The failure in Africa of condom distribution to make a dent in AIDS deaths is most likely cultural, not mechanical. Use of condoms certainly does inhibit the spread of AIDS, but in most of these cultures women have little control over their sex lives and how intercourse proceeds. You can give a woman a hundred condoms, but if she can't get the male to use them they don't do much good. And getting changes in cultures where marriages are arranged without the consent of the bride, where women's genitals are mutilated so that they don't feel pleasure in intercourse and where (under Sharia), it takes multiple male witnesses to get a rape conviction in court isn't going to be easy.

[RonF]

Why do "pro-choice" groups fight for financial support for forced abortion programs in places such as China?

Interesting assertion. The only funding I've seen pro-choice groups fight for is voluntary access to abortion services. I've not heard that they support forcing people to get abortions in China or anywhere else. Perhaps you could back this up with some kind of reference.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - where is the BARF ALERT?

[Gargantua]

"Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute Vice President Douglas Sylva reports that international pro-abortion activists are very concerned about President Bush's "fundamentalist Christian ideology."

"Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)... the head of the prominent pro-abortion nongovernmental organization..."

Wow. What a surprise.

Tools of Satan voicing concern over fundamentalist (aka Biblical) Christian ideology. Who would ever have seen that coming?

The Enemy is concerned with nothing else, other than the presence of God, His Word, and His Flock. That this Lobbyist for Baby Murder should call upon the U.N. (One World Wannabe's) for assistance in thwarting Christian America is just more proof of the Bible's having accurately predicted our modern world over 2000 years ago.

Jesus told us how we could tell the false religions (Satanist deceivers) from the true Church. Those who deny Christ or His teachings are among the deceivers. Period.

By their works shall we know them.

;-/

[Forgiven_Sinner]

"Bush accused of being too Christian"

What a great compliment! How many professing Christians can be "accused" of this?

[kdmhcdcfld]

To the pro-abortionists, unrestricted access to abortions is the only women's health(?) issue that matters...

[ArGee]

"The ideology of the White House," she warned, "extends far beyond abortion politics. In endangers condoms use and family planning…sexuality education, the human rights of women, religious tolerance, and even freedom of speech."

Do women have any health problems any more that aren't related to promiscuity?

You know, heart disease, diabetes, obesety, cancer, stuff like that. Have women overcome all of them?

Just curious.

Shalom.