As a born and raised Houstonian, I personally apoligize for this injustice at the voting booth. Even though I moved "up the road a piece years ago, I'm still hooked into the goings on in Houston. This woman is a disgrace, ignorant to the hilt (remember her thinking we had landed on Mars a few years back)?....but in order to defeat her, someone has got to launch a no holes barred campaign against her, which will be a big task since she has gotten over 90% of the vote in her district each time she's ran and the kicker is that this district is not all black!
She is something else!
U.S. failure to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. "The fact that the United States is the only country besides Somalia that has not ratified [the] child's rights [convention] is shocking,"
said Paula Daeppen, director in Zurich for the Federation of American
Women's Clubs Overseas.
"We're supposed to be a moral leader of the world and child friendly,"
she said.
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, told the meeting she applauded
the administration's work to protect children from pornography,
exploitation and "child soldiering."
But she said she disagreed with the U.S. delegation on some issues.
"There needs to be flexibility on life," she said — an apparent
reference to the administration's strong anti-abortion stance. A person
close to the congresswoman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her
remarks were intended to urge "more flexibility on family planning."
Abortion is not mentioned directly in the draft child-summit document,
but UNICEF, which organized the 187-country special session of the
General Assembly, and the U.N. Fund for Population Activities, interpret
the ambiguous phrase "reproductive health services" to include abortion.
http://members.cox.net/louis.turner/un.htm