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HYPOCRISY
Hypocritical actions and words regarding the banning of women's reproductive rights.  Each entry is divided into two parts: The HYPOCRITICAL ACTION and the FACT

Does the religious right want to prevent abortions or increase them?

From the Washington Post
FDA & THE MORNING AFTER PILL AVAILABILITY OVER THE COUNTER

THE HYPOCRITICAL ACTION

"Some of the most pointed exchanges before the vote involved panel members W. David Hager of the University of Kentucky, an opponent of abortion, and abortion rights supporters such as Alastair Wood of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Hager complained that over-the-counter status would make Plan B available to 9-year-old girls and argued for an age restriction, but Wood responded that age-based or other proposed restrictions were attempts to "raise subtle barriers that we're trying hard to take down.

THE FACT

Heather Boonstra, of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which researches sexual behavior and trends, testified that Plan B has prevented an estimated 52,000 abortions in the United States by preventing unwanted pregnancies.


THE HYPOCRITICAL ACTION from the CRLP website
"USAID acknowledges that unsafe abortion is a public health crisis.2 Yet the agency erroneously claims on its website that:

The Mexico City Policy does not have a major impact on the provision of family planning services. Very few countries where USAID works permit abortion under circumstances broader than those allowed under the Mexico City Policy, and few organizations have a history of lobbying for change in the legal status of abortion.
THE FACT

"Research shows that the global gag rule is severely eroding the provision of family planning and related health-care services for women in rural and other underserved areas.."

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THE HYPOCRITICAL ACTION


Bush's signing of a federal abortion ban in the United States.

THE FACT
FACT #1Bush visited Romania in 2002 to welcome them to NATO. 
"Romania, he said, "brings moral clarity to our NATO alliance.... You know the difference between good and evil because you have seen evil's face. "Here in December of 1989, you broke the silence of your capitvity. From that balcony, the dictator heard your voices, faltered and fled. "The world has suffered enough from fanatics who seek to impose their will through fear and murder," Bush said. "The NATO alliance and the civilized world are confronting the new enemies of freedom and we will prevail."http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/23/lithuania.bush/

FACT #2The history of Romania includes a horrifying account of restrictive abortion laws prior to the 'fleeing of their evil dictator.' The facts are illustrated below:

"The horror wrought by this repressive policy was revealed upon the overthrow of Ceausescu in late 1989. It was discovered that the rate of abortion was actually higher than in any Western European country in which abortion was legal.56 Over 10,000 women died from illegal abortions and about 200,000 children were placed in orphanages.82 The Ceausescu regime had also forcibly returned thousands of unwanted babies to their parents. The wilful neglect of children by the state led to a predictable rise in infant mortality during the Ceausescu era.

On December 26, 1989, one day after defeating Ceausescu, the National Salvation Front repealed the draconian 1966 and 1986 decrees restricting abortion and contraception.83"http://www.cbctrust.com/abortion.html#11