Bush Signs Largest Family Planning Bill In U.S. History

Covenant News ^ | 1/11/02

[truthandlife]

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, the White House reported President Bush signed the ominous $15.4 billion foreign appropriations bill, H.R. 2506, for fiscal-year 2002. The bill authorizes $446.5 million U.S. tax dollars to be given to other countries for abortion-family planning activities throughout the world. The abortion-family planning funds approved by Bush represents an increase of $21.5 million over last year for international family planning. Also on Thursday, Bush signed the labor, education and health spending bill, and a defense spending bill that was widely reported by The Associated Press (Bush Signs Defense Spending Bill).

[truthandlife]

I am a big time Bush supporter and I pray for him but why did he sign this bill with this garbage in it? We are defending our nation against foreign attacks but we are killing innocent defenseless, voiceless babies' lives here and around the world.

[Vladiator]

It this one compassionate?

Or is it conservative?

Can someone please forward me the talking points from Ari Flischer on this one, because I can't figure it out.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Bush was the swallow hard and cross your fingers choice in 2000. He wasn't my first choice but he was the only viable alternative to gwhore.

[Digger]

Please take a moment & see the bills passed by GW & tell me if you can call him conservative. This man triangulates better than Bubba. Did you hear him today in Penn. It's what is good for our country, not for our political party. So he signs a bill for overseas funding including abortions, he puts another 8 Billion above the approx 13 to the rathole of the public schools, WANTS TO INCREASE MONEY FOR FOOD STAMPS TO ILLEGALS. And you people here at what is supposed to be a conservative site lap this guy up like the second coming. And RUSHBO speaks out that we are becoming MORE conservative. WAKE UP!

[Boxsford]

This is hearbreaking. I'm stunned.

[Campion]

God will certainly smile on us for this ... NOT.

People wonder why America is hated. This kind of cr*p is why.

[Boxsford]

Get off your self-righteous horse! Your shouting and preaching accomplishes nothing at all!

[truthandlife]

All we can do is pray for him but it is truly heartbreaking.

[grania]

The bill authorizes $446.5 million U.S. tax dollars to be given to other countries for abortion-family planning activities throughout the world.

Assuming this is true, it's incomprehensible. GWB's popularity is in the stratosphere...people have accepted the anti-abortion stance. I just don't want to hear the administration didn't know it was in there or some lame excuse.

[Ironword]

Jes' a minute. Bush had reinstated Reagan's Mexico City policy last year, and this charge does not comport with that. I think that this money is available only to groups who do not use or promote abortion as a method of birth control; thus International Planned Parenthood is out of the cash loop on this.

Can anyone confirm?

[Boxsford]

I'm shaken by this. It doesn't make sense to me what is happening. On one hand Bush looks so strong and able handling the terriorist problem and then on the other hand he's spending money like there is no end to how much is available. Then this! He calls himself a Christian and he does this?

Didn't Congress (the Republican's) take away foreign funding for family planning just a few years ago? What is with Bush implementing this funding again!!!!!

[Boxsford]

It could be. When I went to the source, the story doesn't give the text of the bill that was signed or explain much at all. I hope you're right.

[Jefferson Adams]

The bill authorizes $446.5 million U.S. tax dollars to be given to other countries for abortion-family planning activities throughout the world

How special. And the beat goes on.

[Jefferson Adams]

And you people here at what is supposed to be a conservative site lap this guy up like the second coming.

Shhhhhhh...you'll wake up the "conservatives"...

[Jefferson Adams]

I keep hoping that this is just positioning in order to defeat the Rats soundly in 2002 and 2004.

LOL - that's it! Bush is up to his sly tricks, pretending to have the same agenda as the Dems soze he kin fool 'em yet again < g > Yep, what with the draconian stuff he's authorized since 9/11 (including implementing Krinton's Homeland Defense plan), plus the Mexican truckers thing, plus saying that NAFTA is great for America (heard him say that on the radio during the summer), plus yet another undeclared war, plus amnesty for illegal aliens, plus - well, he's just one heck of a tricky guy, ain't he?

[Dane]

Didn't Congress (the Republican's) take away foreign funding for family planning just a few years ago? What is with Bush implementing this funding again!!!!!

Yep and with Tommy Daschle running the Senate due to Jumpin Jim Jeffords, the funding was probably increased and Bush didn't want a "govt. shutdown" over this.

The Supreme Court has ruled the line item veto unconstitutional also.

The ignorace of the basic machinations of the legislative process around here can be astounding.

[Jefferson Adams]

It doesn't make sense to me what is happening.

It does to me. You folks have got to wake up some day and see that the Repubs and the Dems are nothing more than a Good Cop / Bad Cop smoke and mirrors game, and they have been for decades. While one side or the other "wins" alternately, the same agenda keeps moving forward. Ultimately it's all about globalism. We're being moved toward a pre-determined outcome, and all these things are simply pieces in the puzzle.

[homeschool mama]

Let's wait to see the actual bill and read the talking points by Ari...before we make conclusions. There's alot missing in the dialogue at this point. ;o)