Posted on 01/11/2002 3:45:23 PM PST by rdavis84
BUSH’S "MEXICO CITY" ABORTION POLICY DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MEANING OF "IS" IS
ABORTION AND ABORTION ADVOCACY WILL STILL BE FUNDED
Previously, your editor has pointed out that President G.W.B.’s decision to restore the Reagan "Mexico City" policy, limiting the provision of your tax dollars flowing to overseas population control organizations was less significant than assumed by many well-intentioned pro-life leaders, in that, while the Bush policy does limit the direct use of U.S. subsidies to perform and promote abortion, nonetheless, the pro-abortion recipient organizations still get the money to which they are not Constitutionally or morally entitled, with these funds available to offset their other expenses, so long as the U.S. Treasury dollars are assigned to a separate bank account.
Now, in reviewing the policy as enunciated in the Federal Register (Vol. 66, No. 61, Thursday, March 29, 2001) Presidential Documents, "Memorandum of March 28, 2001: Restoration of the Mexico City Policy" over the signature of President Bush, it is clear that this is even less a pro-life victory than first believed.
"FAMILY PLANNING": YES, "ABORTION": NO --- WITH EXCEPTIONS
GWB: "The Mexico City Policy announced by President Reagan in 1984 required foreign nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds for family planning activities that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations….
"It is my conviction that taxpayer funds appropriated pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act should not be given to foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform abortions or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations…except as otherwise provided below...."
ABORTION FUNDING OK IF NOT "A METHOD OF FAMILY PLANNING"
"The recipient agrees that it will not furnish assistance for family planning under this award to any foreign nongovernmental organization that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning in USAID-recipient countries or that provides financial support to any other foreign nongovernmental organization that conducts such activities. For purposes of this paragraph (e), a foreign nongovernmental organization is a nongovernmental organization that is not organized under the laws of any State of the United States, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. ..."
FUNDING OF "POST-ABORTION" CARE IS AUTHORIZED
"Abortion is a method of family planning when it is for the purpose of spacing births. This includes, but is not limited to, abortions performed for the physical or mental health of the mother, but does not include abortions performed if the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term or abortions performed following rape or incest (since abortion under these circumstances is not a family planning act)."
FUNDING OF POST-ABORTION SERVICES PERMITTED
"To perform abortions means to operate a facility where abortions are performed as a method of family planning. Excluded from this definition are clinics or hospitals that do not include abortion in their family planning programs. Also excluded from this definition is the treatment of injuries or illnesses caused by legal or illegal abortions, for example, post-abortion care. ..."
GWB: "SAFE, LEGAL ABORTION" REFERRAL IS PERMITTED
"([P]assively responding to a question regarding where a safe, legal abortion may be obtained is not considered active promotion if the question is specifically asked by a woman who is already pregnant, the woman clearly states that she has already decided to have a legal abortion, and the family planning counselor reasonably believes that the ethics of the medical profession in the country requires a response regarding where it may be obtained safely).…"
GWB OK’S ABORTION ADVOCACY IF "FAMILY PLANNING" PERSONNEL DO IT ON THEIR LUNCH HOUR
"Action by an individual acting in the individual’s capacity shall not be attributed to an organization with which the individual is associated, provided that the organization neither endorses nor provides financial support for the action and takes reasonable steps to ensure that the individual does not improperly represent that the individual is acting on behalf of the organization. ..."
SEPARATE BANK ACCOUNTS FOR ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION
"The recipient may request USAID’s approval to treat as separate the family planning activities of two or more organizations, that would not be considered separate under the preceding sentence, if the recipient believes, and provides a written justification to USAID therefor, that the family planning activities of the organizations are sufficiently distinct so as to warrant not imputing the activity of one to the other."
ALL U.S. FUNDS MUST BE CLEANLY LAUNDERED
"Assistance for family planning may be furnished under this award by a recipient, subrecipient or sub-subrecipient to a foreign government even though the government includes abortion in its family planning program, provided that no assistance may be furnished in support of the abortion activity of the government and any funds transferred to the government shall be placed in a segregated account to ensure that such funds may not be used to support the abortion activity of the government."
DUBYA SAYS USAID SUBSIDIES WILL FUND CHILD-SPACING ABORTIONS
"The requirements of this paragraph are not applicable to child spacing assistance furnished to a foreign nongovernmental organization that is engaged primarily in providing health services if the objective of the assistance is to finance integrated health care services to mothers and children and child spacing is one of several health care services being provided by the organization as part of a larger child survival effort with the objective of reducing infant and child mortality."
http://www.conservativeusa.org/bushwatch.htm
You're such a weasel, davis, that you're going to have to put in the entire context before I'm going to believe that the title of this article is true.
These "....." are commonly used by liberals and libertarians to twist the actual wording because they mean something was left out.
You wouldn't bullshit us now, davis, would you?
Nice conversational vocabulary you've got yourself there sinkspur.
What about the other quotes?
For instance. The last paragraph starts with this headline:
DUBYA SAYS USAID SUBSIDIES WILL FUND CHILD-SPACING ABORTIONS
NOWHERE in the paragraph is the word abortion or contraception used, referenced, or alluded to. In fact, it's hard to tell what the paragraph means since it's taken out of context.
The entire piece is taken out of context; the cute little headlines are given to it by "BushWatch" which I initially took to be some kind of porn site.
You're being dishonest, davis. Very dishonest.
Hey !!!! I resemble that!!!! lol
PAT ROBERTSON DENOUNCES "EXTREME" SUPPORT FOR THE RIGHT TO LIFE
Rev. Pat Robertson, President and founder of the Christian Coalition, was interviewed by Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts on ABC's This Week (10/3/99):
BUSH IS "VERY ACCEPTABLE" TO ROBERTSON
SAM DONALDSON: "...[Y]ou like George W. Bush. And yet a lot of people think that he doesn't have the social agenda on abortion or anything else that in the past, has been the redweed of your Coalition."
REV. PAT ROBERTSON: "Well, I think he's a very fine candidate. Because I'm not endorsing anybody yet, but I think he would make a very acceptable candidate."
PAT DOESN'T WANT BUSH TO BE TOO CONSERVATIVE
SAM DONALDSON: "....[H]ere's something that you said recently, unless you want to deny it. (Laughter) Since it's not inflammatory, you probably won't. 'I personally am interested -- not interested in pushing him...' -- meaning George W. Bush -- 'so far to the right that he will not be electable.'"
REV. PAT ROBERTSON: "Yes."
SAM DONALDSON: "So, what is it? Is it principle, or is it who can win?"
REV. PAT ROBERTSON: "Well, it's principle, but at the same time, I quote that great paragon of virtue, Lyndon Johnson, who said to his left-wing supporters, don't push me so far to the left that I can't win. And I was just merely paraphrasing him. ..."
ROBERTSON THINKS IT'S OK TO MURDER CHILDREN SIRED BY THE WRONG PARENTS
COKIE ROBERTS: "[D]o you think in the past that the Coalition and some of its followers have pushed candidates too far to the right to be elected?"
REV. PAT ROBERTSON: "Well, we did that -- I didn't do it, but my former campaign manager in Virginia did it with a man named Marshall Coleman. In the primary, she pushed him way over to what amounted to an extreme position in relation to abortion, I mean, very extreme. ..."
COKIE ROBERTS: "What's an extreme position?"
REV. PAT ROBERTSON: "Well, on this one, I mean, there was no exception for anything. I mean, there was no exception for rape or incest or the life of the mother or anything. I mean, it was an absolute ban, a criminalization of abortion."
Isn't Howard Philips the chairman of the Conservative Caucus?
Wasn't he on the ticket for the Constitution Party - which is formerly the US Taxpayers Party ( US Taxpayers Party Changes its Name)?
This 'TCC' orgainization just looks to be a way to smear other conservatives ... and will, in the long run, in no way help you to reach your goals ...
Howard Phillips, the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee for the 2000 elections.
The connections ...
Howard Phillips, who founded The Conservative Caucus (TCC) at the direction of 33º Mason, Jesse Helms on whose staff he worked. TCC has an interlocking directorate (Phillips served on advisory board) with the United States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) of the WACL. Phillips also proposed the name for the Young Americans for Freedom and served on its board of directors.Conclusion: ... Bircher ...
Be afraid, be VERY afraid...RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
Go to the Federal Register and look up the memorandum and the bill (which is stated in the article) Vol. 66, No. 61, Thursday, March 29, 2001) Presidential Documents, "Memorandum of March 28, 2001: Restoration of the Mexico City Policy" ---- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
Howard is a perennial presidential candidate.
The "BushWatch" website has its tin cup out at the very top of the site.
Coincidence?
More like a swollen hemorrhoid.
You try and try and try to smear Bush with crap like this, davis, but it, somehow, just doesn't work.
Ever notice how your threads seem to just run out of gas?
Hell, if _Jim and Poohbah and I weren't here to dance on this thread's grave, it would have died two hours ago.
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