Posted on 12/14/2009 2:15:40 AM PST by rabscuttle385
SIRAKANO, Uganda — At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.
"I delivered all these children because I didn't know there was another way," said Adongo, who started on a free quarterly contraceptive injection last year. Surrounded by her weary-faced brood, her 21-month-old boy clutching at her faded blue dress, she added glumly: "I fear we are already too many in this family."
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Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women.
Bush's mammoth global anti-AIDS initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, poured billions of dollars into Africa but prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs, whose budgets flat-lined.
When Congress reauthorized PEPFAR in July 2008, to the tune of $48 billion over five years...
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Big Government™ conservatism, one of the many strains of the RINO-virus, feels great...until you run out of other people's money!
Too bad Bush didn't have the cojones to actually halt or decrease U.S. foreign aid, i.e., Big Government™ give-aways abroad; instead he chose to ramp it up.
Fixed it.
its laughable. Noone ever take responsibility for their own shit according to the Liberal. It should be govern responsibility
Can you imagine the outcry if Bush gave black people injections not to have babies?
13 children in Bush’s 8 years. That would be what, one child every 7.4 months?
It’s All Bush’s Fault. Some woman who can count to 28 gets pregnant for the 15th time halfway around the World, and it’s all Bush’s fault.
That guy gets around more than Tiger Woods!
geeze louise bump
Does gummint cheese promote fertility ?
President Bush has a glorious record of supporting life. That is all conservative. He also used taxpayer money wisely in this case with the AIDS prevention and treatment saving millions of lives. This is also conservatism at it’s best.
Some here believe the libertarian secular view is conservative, it is not. They miss the boat entirely. Without God’s morality and goodness there is no conservatism.
Where is the morality or rightness in borrowing money from one foreign country, on the credit of future generations of Americans, only to turn around and give it away to another foreign country?
If you--or any other Freeper--took out credit cards in your childrens' names, without their consent, and took cash advances to make charitable donations, you would be arrested and charged with theft and fraud.
And there's nothing conservative about theft and fraud, unless of course, conservatism is really just rebadged progressivism.
Is it?
As usual, our esteemed media failed and continue to ignore the Bush Administration's admirable effort in this area, which have been reduced by the Obama Administration. Given their respective track records, conservatives have it all over the 'bleeding heart liberals!'
“Where is the morality or rightness in borrowing money from one foreign country, on the credit of future generations of Americans, only to turn around and give it away to another foreign country?”
I think you are confused...President Bush did not borrow money from a foreign country...other than from the normal T-bill auctions.
We all share a right to life that is a gift from God. Accepting that each life has value and rights is very conservative. Indeed, conservatism begins with that basic principle. President Bush understands that very well and stood tall for life at every juncture.
The morality is saving lives and befriending nations with mercy and compassion. Africa and America are better off from President Bush’s conservative compassion.
I find it amazing that people blame President Bush for increasing the deficit...do you guys live in a vacuum? Do you realize we are fighting a war on terror and that he inherited a recession as he came into office?
He also had to bring the military back up to standard after it had been gutted during the Clinton era.
Besides, congress does the spending...not the President. I don’t agree with everything President Bush did but I do understand that he is probably one of the greatest Presidents this nation has had.
LOL....now I’ve heard it all. An African woman has 13 babies and it’s Bush’s fault! No wonder McClatchy papers are looking for a gubment subsidy!
Well stated, President Bush understood the sanctity of life and the importance or recognizing the dignity in each soul.
Unfortunately, few understand this anymore. As our society become increasingly secular we lose our spiritual intelligence. Few understand that without the recognition of the right to life and the dignity of each soul that there is no real basis for individual freedom as a transcendental right. That is what sets American philosophy apart from all the other forms of governance.
Try crossing your legs you stupid tool!
Thirty billion dollars that should have been spent(or not spent at all) in the USA.
And I’m sure the BeHAVIOR over there has changed little, if at all.
The United States PEPFAR program promotes the “correct and consistent use of Condoms.” [url]http://www.pepfar.gov/about/c19387.htm[/url] How is this, according the article, “sh[ying] away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women”?
The purpose of PEPFAR is to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. It may well be true that the U.S. “prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs,” just like our agricultural aid to Uganda also cannot be used for family planning. (To allow otherwise would be known as embezzlement.)
The “United States is the third ranking donor to Uganda.” [url]http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2006/afr/ug.html[/url] With biased articles like this, any lesser country similarly criticized would probably just say “F ‘em” and be done with it.
Accurate picture of Bush throwing money around. Sad thing about it, spending all our money didnt make him liked by anyone, except a few lone Bush-bots that are delusional.
Did Bush just cut off funding for abortions, or did he cutoff contraceptives too as the article implies? Definitely contraceptives are the humanitarian thing to do there. Seems cost effective too.
At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control. ... "I delivered all these children because I didn't know there was another way," said Adongo.Holy cow, she didn't 'know'! Well Beatrice needs to immigrate to America asap. Then move to California, and then .. Run For Congress!
She'll fit right in with the rest of the MORONS!
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