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Opponents warn that the treaty's call for universal access to family planning is really a disguised call for a right to abortion services.

When you say someone has "passed on", everyone knows knows they mean the person is dead.

When people talking about women's rights mention "family planning" and "reporductive services", everyone knows they are talking about abortion. Just let someone in the senate try attaching a rider to the treaty stating that the senate's understanding of "family planning" does not include abortion and watch how quickly it will be struck down by the same people who deny "family planning" means abortion.

Just let someone in the senate try attaching a rider to the treaty stating that the senate's understanding of "family planning" does not include abortion and watch how quickly it will be struck down by the same people who deny "family planning" means abortion.

That is a great idea! Define "family planning" and expose their true intentions through their reactions.

When people talking about women's rights mention "family planning" and "reporductive services", everyone knows they are talking about abortion. Just let someone in the senate try attaching a rider to the treaty stating that the senate's understanding of "family planning" does not include abortion and watch how quickly it will be struck down by the same people who deny "family planning" means abortion.

But ... but ... This can't be true!!

To: Snuffington
Language is important.
Agreed.
the Body Politic
Vol. 01, No. 06 - June 1991, Page 8
Copyright © 1991, 1998 by the Body Politic Inc.

Title X - Quotable Quotes

Read My Lips!

We need to make population and family planning household words. We need to take the sensationalism out of this topic so that it can no longer be usedby militants who have no real knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but, rather, are using it as a political stepping stone. If family planning is anything, it is a public health matter.
Rep. George Bush, 1969

Most important is that legislation be recognized as ... a health-care service mechanism and not a population control mechanism.
Rep. George Bush, 1970

As we amended the Social Security Act in 1967, I was impressed by the sensible approach of Alan Guttmacher, the obstetrician who served as president of Planned Parenthood. It was ridiculous, he told the committee, to blame mothers on welfare for having too many children when the clinics and hospitals they used were absolutely prohibited from saying a word about birth control. So we took the lead in Congress in providing money and urging -- in fact requiring -- that in the United States family planning services be available for every woman, not just the private patient with her own gynecologist.
George Bush (Foreword to World Population Crisis by Phyllis Piotrow), 1973

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