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Outlawing Abortion Not the Solution to Crisis Pregancies
WOMEN’S RIGHTS — ABORTION RATES UNAFFECTED BY OUTLAWING THE PROCEDURE: A new global study “has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women seeking it.” While the rates of abortion are similar worldwide, the safety of the procedure varies widely. The study “found that abortion was a very safe procedure for women in countries where it is legal, but extremely dangerous for women in countries where it is outlawed and performed underground.” “The data also suggested that the best way to reduce abortion rates was not to make abortion illegal but to make contraception more widely available.” Unfortunately, the Bush administration continues to promote a failed policy of abstinence-only sex education and tie African HIV/AIDS reduction aid to groups promoting abstinence-only policies
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GOP Fiscal Conservatives Only When It Relates to Domestic Programs Not WAR!
Money for nothing?
When George W. Bush said during his 2005 State of the Union address that “taxpayer dollars must be spent wisely, or not at all,” we vowed to pack those words away and pull them out again whenever the occasion warranted.
The occasion warrants.
As the New York Times reports this morning, the State Department cannot say “specifically what it received” for the $1.2 billion it has given to a company that was supposed to be building training facilities and deploying trainers for Iraqi police.
The problem is in the records — they’re in “disarray,” the Post says — and in the lack of oversight from State. The audit finds that State had all of two employees overseeing the $1.2 billion and 700 contractors in Iraq — a level of supervision Iraq reconstruction inspector general Stuart W. Bowen Jr. calls “pretty weak.”
How poor was State’s oversight? This poor: As the Post explains, State initially told auditors that as part of its Iraq contract, DynCorp had billed the government $1.8 million for an X-ray scanner it never used and spent nearly $400,000 to put company executives in hotels rather than in existing living facilities. That’s bad, but it gets worse: It turns out the expenditures weren’t even made in Iraq; they were made in Afghanistan, which is, like, a totally different country.
But no worries now, because the State Department is totally on top of the problem — and sometime within “three to five years,” it says it will be able to square the payments it has made to DynCorp with whatever services it may have received from the company.
All of which reminds us of something else the president once said: Condi, you’re doing a heck of a job.
Lindsey Graham Supports the Troops as Long as They Agree with Him
He’s with the generals, generally
When MoveOn placed its Petraeus/”Betray Us” ad in the New York Times, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham called it “sick and disgusting.”
“While we believe fervently in the right of free speech,” he said, “we also believe that it is possible and proper to conduct this debate without besmirching our brave men and women in uniform.”
So what does Graham have to say about retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who said last week that the Iraq war has been a “glaring, unfortunate display of incompetent strategic leadership”?
Well, this: “I appreciate his service, but Abu Ghraib got out of control under his watch, the war in general got out of control under his watch. And it’s not time to blame people, but his criticism is a bit astounding to me given his role in the war itself.”