Word: gagged
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...time for a little kumbaya, a little hand-holding and coming together. So in that generous spirit, in spite of our many differences, I hope that we can all, pro-choicers and pro-lifers alike, join together in condemning the Bush administration policy known as the Global Gag Rule...
First adopted by President Reagan and later abolished by President Clinton, the Global Gag Rule—officially titled the “Mexico City Policy”—was reinstated by Bush on the second day of his presidency. The Global Gag Rule prohibits the provision of U.S. family planning aid to foreign NGOs that perform abortions (except in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the woman’s life), offer abortion counseling or referral or lobby for the legalization or increased availability of abortion in their country. Groups that engage in any of these...
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These nominations follow a pattern in the Bush administration, which has wholeheartedly led the camp against women both at home and abroad. Among President Bush’s first actions as president was reinstating the global gag rule, a policy that former President Bill Clinton lifted when he was in office. Under the gag rule, any international family planning organization that provides abortion services or counseling is denied U.S. funding. More recently, Bush went even further by withholding $34 million appropriated to the U.N. Population Fund on the baseless fear that the group may be promoting abortion. This only leaves...
...subterfuge. Never before has a White House been so crass about doling out the spoils of war to its corporate cronies—Halliburton, Bechtel et al—while using the afterglow of victory to cow those who might object. The same administration that used patriotism as a gag on dissent is responsible for a treasonous leak that, if it had happened under a Democrat’s watch, would have Republicans calling for capital punishment for the perpetrators...