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International Actions

UNFPA
http://www.planetwire.org/details/2937
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2002/12036.htm
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=15660

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/17238.pdf
"FY 2004 Funding for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)," Press Statement by Richard Boucher, Spokesman, Washington, DC, delivered July 16, 2004

Global Gag Rule
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20010123-5.html (NOTE: In this statement the President says, "It is my conviction that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions…" Federal law has prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortions since 1973.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/08/20030829-3.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sap/108-1/s1426sap-s.pdf

The New Litmus Test
http://www.usaid.gov/business/business_opportunities/cib/pdf/aapd05_04.pdf
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/1/gr080112.html
Letter to George W. Bush, May 18, 2005
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/aosi_v_usaid/
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=34941 http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1692457,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,12462,1475966,00.html

International Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/17227.pdf
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/28779.pdf (page 16)
http://www.popact.org/news/views/2006/02_06_Budget.htm
http://www.unfpa.org/supplies/family.htm
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/60297.pdf

Beijing at 10
Proposed U.S. amendment to the Draft Declaration of the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, February 22, 2005
U.S. fax "Talking Points: Commission on the Status of Women 2005," March 2, 2005
"The Cheese Stands Alone," Katha Pollitt, The Nation, March 3, 2005 
"U.S. Drops Effort on Abortion Proviso at U.N. Meeting on Women," Warren Hoge, The New York Times, March 4, 2005

ICPD
http://www.planetwire.org/details/4602?PHPSESSID=3cc36670453c0ea80823435effa18370 http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/4597_USPosition.pdf
Speech made by Assistant Secretary of State Arthur E. Dewey - December 16, 2002, U.S. conditional proposal - December 14, 2002
"U.S. Stance on Abortion and Condom Use Rejected at Population Conference," Associated Press, December 17, 2002

Essential Medicines
http://www.crlp.org/pub_fac_abortion_laws.html, Center for Reproductive Rights http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/unsafe_abortion/index.html, World Health Organization
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1464589,00.html, The Guardian

Iraqi Women
The Nation, "Antifeminists Hit Iraq," November 15, 2004

Adolescents
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=ireland20020516
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/914/context/archive

CEDAW
Letter from U.S. Department of State to Senator Joseph Biden - February 7, 2002
Letter from U.S. Department of Justice to Senator Joseph Biden - July 26, 2002
http://www.womenstreaty.org/senateupdate.htm

Conference on HIV/AIDS
Science Magazine, Vol. 304, Issue 5670, 499-500, 23 April 2004

Refugee Women
Letter from eight organizations to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell - March 10, 2003 Letter from the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children - June 2003 Letter from the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium - August 11, 2003; "U.S. Cuts Off Financing for AIDS Program, Provoking Furor," The New York Times, August 27, 2003

Domestic Issues

Administration Plan A
http://www.aap.org/pressroom/ECstatement.pdf
Washington Post article 
August 31, 2005 Reproductive Health Technologies press release: "Senior FDA Official Steps Down Over Announcement to Stall Plan B OTC Approval"
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=32989
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=33075

Department of Injustice
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=18992&c=225
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=32321
http://www.acog.org/departments/dept_notice.cfm?recno=17&bulletin=1625
http://www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/annual05/417a05.pdf
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2287/context/archive

Medicaid
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/08/1/gr080104.pdf http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2005/02/22/index.html
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/medicaid-IB-Gold.pdf

Federal Marriage Promotion
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/hhs.html
Avis Jones-De Weever, "Marriage Promotion and Low-Income Communities: An Examination of Real Needs and Real Solutions," Institute for Women's Policy Research, June 2002, available at http://www.iwpr.org/
http://people-press.org/reports/print.php3?ReportID=150
http://www.cbpp.org/2-10-04wel.pdf
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/CCDBGReauvhorization2004.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/pdf/Compassion-07.pdf

The So-Called "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban
PL 108-105 and http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1465

Department of Justice
Text of Letter from Several Judiciary Members to Attorney General Ashcroft Regarding Enforcement of Partial Birth Abortion Ban (11/6/03) http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/agpbaenforceltr11603.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/November/03_opa_606.htm
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/print_report.cfm?DR_ID=22178&dr_cat=2 

Fetal Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Fetus-Rights.html

Science
Erica Goode, "Certain Words Can Trip Up AIDS Grants, Scientists Say," The New York Times, April 18, 2003
Donald Kennedy, "Editorial:  An Epidemic of Politics," Science, January 31, 2003 (Vol. 299), p. 625
Oliver Burkeman and Alok Jha, "The Battle for American Science," The Guardian, April 10, 2003, p. 4
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=22428
"U.S. Nobel science winners worry about Bush policies toward research", Associated Press, Mattias Karen, December 8, 2005.

Title X
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/gr050111.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
http://www.4parents.gov

Abstinence-Only Sex Education
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
"Report Shows Abstinence-Only Education Programs Not More Effective," Associated Press, January 4, 2004
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=18280&c=30
http://www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/sexed/24239lgl20060223.html

Prescription Drugs
Politics vs. Public Health in 2001 - Congress, the Bush administration and Reproductive Health Rights, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, January 2002

NCI
NCI Factsheet: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer 
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/ere-workshop-report

HHS
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=16063
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=24278

Global Health Meeting
"HHS Withholds Funds for Global Health Meeting," Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, April 27, 2004
"White House to Pull Support for Conference," Charles Hurt, Washington Times, April 26, 2004

Title IX
http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/TitleIXCommissionTalkingPoints_3-20-03.pdf
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1469
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/title9guidanceadditional.pdf

Judicial Nominations

Samuel Alito
Senate vote

Claude A. Allen
"Jesse's Soldiers," John Wagner, The News & Observer, December 22, 2002, page A-1
"Bush to decide whether to resubmit Virginian for 4th Circuit judgeship," David L. Greene and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, The Baltimore Sun, December 11, 2003.

D. Michael Fisher
WITF Debate Transcript, Mike Fisher and Ed Rendell (Oct. 24, 2002)
"Fisher Speaks at Event" - Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 30, 2002, available at http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_west/20020630wdigestp9.asp
Brief Amicus Curiae of Virginia, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000) (No. 99-830)
18 Pa. Cons. Stat. §§ 3201-20
http://www.ppsp.org/aca.html
505 U.S. 833 (1992)

Priscilla Owen
"Bush Renominates Pickering, Other Judges," New York Times,  January 8, 2003

Charles Pickering
"Bush Renominates Pickering, Other Judges," New York Times, January 8, 2003
Bush Seats Judge, Bypassing Senate Democrats," New York Times, "January 17, 2004
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005

Bill Pryor
http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0409-14.htm
"Senate Panel Approves Pryor Nomination," Associated Press, July 23, 2003
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005.

Janice Rogers Brown
San Francisco Chronicle article
NFPRHA Report article, "Bush Says 'Happy Valentine's Day' by Resubmitting 20 Judicial Nominees Not Approved in Last Congress," February 28, 2005

Dennis Shedd
http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/shedd.html
"The Secret History of Judges", New York Times editorial, July 31, 2002 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/reports/2000/02/kr000204.3.htm

Other Nominations

Tom Coburn
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020301a.html

Alma Golden
http://www.catchum.utmb.edu/resources/SAGE_Advice_files/SAGEAdvc.ppt

W. David Hager
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2002/NEW00861.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,361521,00.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey

John M. Klink
http://www.planetwire.org/details/1655
Letter from Assistant Secretary Paul Kelly to U.S. representative Carolyn Maloney - January 31, 2003.

Rev. Herbert H. Lusk, Jr.
http://www.pacha.gov/
http://www.standforafrica.org/
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid27710.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/08/AR2006010801069.html

Charlotte Ponticelli
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/19419.htm

Ellen Sauerbrey
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/6712/
http://www.worldcongress.org/wcf3_spkrs/wcf3_sauerbrey.htm
http://www.genderhealth.org/sauerbrey.php
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060104-3.html

Anita Smith
http://www.pacha.gov/
http://www.childrensaidsfund.org/
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/2696/1/84?TopicID=2
http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20050215110525-05210.pdf

For more information, contact Whitney Welshimer at 212-979-8500 or wwelshimer@iwhc.org.

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