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To: Tribune7
Wenham said Right To Life's ideology is overshadowing health care issues.

I don't think health care is an area where we can experiment for religious and political reasons.

Mark Bertler, executive director of the Michigan Association for Local Public Health, wrote in August 2001 to the chairman of the House committee considering the bill. He wrote that his board, representing public health departments across the state, opposed it.

"The board is concerned that this legislation may put Michigan's successful family planning and pregnancy prevention programs at risk.

Seems to me that if a woman can give birth, in all probability she is in very good 'reproductive health'.

Orwell saw them coming a loooong time ago.

29 posted on 01/07/2002 4:54:28 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse
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To: He Rides A White Horse; notwithstanding
Another reason to defund Planned Parenthood:

Pro-choice Planned Parenthood will also likely end up spending nearly $18 million on Al Gore’s behalf this election year, directing persuasion phone calls and mailings to more than 2 million “compassionate conservative” women the group identified in surveys earlier this year. Additionally, Planned Parenthood ran $8 million worth of T.V. ads in nine key battleground states.

Story here.

34 posted on 01/07/2002 6:30:22 PM PST by IM2Phat4U
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To: He Rides A White Horse
Orwell saw them coming a loooong time ago

Yes, he did.

36 posted on 01/07/2002 6:37:06 PM PST by Tribune7
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