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To: 2020x100
Since you seem to be pro-PP, do you really believe it was a good policy that they were forcing their clinics on Muslim countries? Do you think they might have had much to do with pushing so-called moderate Muslim clerics into more anti-American positions? Look at the tactics pulled at the Cairo Conference-----the Planned Parenthood tried to run Muslim clerics and the Vatican out so they could have no opposition at all. I think some of you had better start looking very hard at your genocide practices and what it's done to the image of the US throughout the world.
20 posted on 10/17/2001 5:23:14 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: FITZ
" I think some of you had better start looking very hard at your genocide practices and what it's done to the image of the US throughout the world.

Helping to provide contraception and health care to women in third world countries is not a "genocidal practice."

Leaving them be is.

Every minute of every day, somewhere on Earth, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth -- more than 500,000 deaths a year. Of the motherless children left behind, an estimated 90 percent die before they turn 1 .

Health centers receiving U.S. family-planning assistance often supply the only basic health care of any kind for miles around. They offer information on and access to contraception; reproductive health care and education on nutrition and hygiene. These centers also provide health care for pregnant women, assistance when they deliver their babies and follow-up care for mother and child.

Providing a mother with access to contraception also helps her children. Studies show that children spaced at intervals of two years or more are healthier than siblings born in rapid succession. Contraceptives are as important to public health as vaccines or antibiotics.

By providing men and women the education and services they need for sexual health, these programs protect them from AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections and help ensure their babies are healthy. Last year, more than half the AIDS deaths in the world were women, and they left behind millions of orphans, many of them HIV-positive.

There is no "forced" abortions. There *is* a great deal of education and contraception assistance.

Or maybe you prefer to see more acres and acres of little children's distended bellies with flies and maggots hovering around the starving and dying. And more women die in childbirth because they could not have access to contraception.

Yeah. All those slutty third world women just sexing it up and should be punished now, huh?

34 posted on 10/17/2001 5:51:27 AM PDT by 2020x100
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