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BUSH'S OTHER WAR

Bush's Other War:
The Assault on Women's and Girls' Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

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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
http://www.ipas.org/english/press_room/2005/releases/07072005.asp

Iraqi Women
The Nation, "Antifeminists Hit Iraq," November 15, 2004 http://www.iwf.org/iraq/iraq_detail.asp?ArticleID=677, Independent Women's Forum
http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?&id=11565, CorpWatch
http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_detail.asp?ArticleID=678 http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_list.asp?sType=77
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipients/iwf.htm

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
Politics and Science letter

Lone Voice of Dissent
Report
Vote

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 Actions

Administration Plan A
FDA Advisory Committees' recommendations
http://www.aap.org/pressroom/ECstatement.pdf
Washington Post article
http://www.choiceusa.org/facts/ec_5.pdf
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.apha.org/legislative/legislative/letters/letter_emer_contra.htm
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.nfprha.org/uploads/MedicaidNovember2005.pdf
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/medicaid-IB-Gold.pdf
For state-by-state impact, visit:
http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=2171§ion=health

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.

State Child Health Insurance Plus
http://cms.hhs.gov/providerupdate/regs/cms2127f.pdf
Statement by Senator Jeff Bingaman

"Human Subjects"
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/sachrp/charter.pdf http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/nhrpac/charter.htm

Title X
http://www.nfprha.org/pac/factsheets/titlex.asp http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/gr050111.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
http://www.4parents.gov
http://www.4parents.gov/downloads/teenchat.pdf

Abstinence-Only Sex Education
http://www.nfprha.org/pac/factsheets/absunlessmarried.asp http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/pdf/budget/hhs.pdf
Article by Douglas Kirby
"Report Shows Abstinence-Only Education Programs Not More Effective," Associated Press, January 4, 2004
http://democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20011201102153-50247.pdf
http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=18280&c=30
http://www.populationconnection.org/Action_Alerts/alert490.html
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

CDC
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_admin/admin_hhs_info.htm http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/condoms.htm

NCI
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/inves_admin/admin_hhs_info.htm
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

Mother May I
Letter to WHO

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

John G. Roberts
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=5
NARAL Factsheet
http://www.asksam.com/cgi-bin/as_web6.exe?Command=First&File=JGRHearing

Samuel Alito
Senate vote
NARAL Pro-Choice Ameria press release
Washington Post Article
http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/1985/sg850181.txt

Claude A. Allen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13850-2003May4.html
"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.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Ex-Bush-Aide.html

D. Michael Fisher
WITF Debate Transcript, Mike Fisher and Ed Rendell (Oct. 24, 2002), available at http://www.witf.org/transcripts/WITFdebate.pdf
"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); http://www.pacatholic.org/election%20archive/primary%202002.pdf http://www.pacatholic.org/election%20archive/primary%202002.pdf
18 Pa. Cons. Stat. §§ 3201-20
http://www.ppsp.org/aca.html
505 U.S. 833 (1992)

James Leon Holmes
NARAL factsheet
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=39

Carolyn Kuhl
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=18
NARAL factsheet

Michael McConnell
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=19

Priscilla Owen
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=21
"Bush Renominates Pickering, Other Judges," New York Times, January 8, 2003

Charles Pickering
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=9 http://www.independentjudiciary.com/resources/docs/pickering2.pdf
"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.independentjudiciary.com/news/release.cfm?ReleaseID=71
http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0409-14.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46737-2003Jun11.html
"Senate Panel Approves Pryor Nomination," Associated Press, July 23, 2003
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=31553&format=text
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
http://naral.org/facts/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=446
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

Jeffrey S. Sutton
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=10

Diane Sykes
http://www.independentjudiciary.org/resources/docs/sykes_report.pdf

Timothy Tymkovich
http://www.independentjudiciary.com/nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=15

Other Nominations

Tom Coburn
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/20020301a.html
http://www.populationconnection.org/crc/vote17.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://health.family.org/articles/A0000004.html
http://www.cmdahome.org/?CONTEXT=art&cat=208&art=1589&BISKIT=3576218392
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050530&s=mcgarvey

John M. Klink
http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/new/KlinkFactSheet.htm
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

Joe McIlhaney
http://www.pacha.gov/staff/members/members.html#m http://www.family.org/docstudy/solid/a0006253.html
McIlhaney statement on abstinence-only programs

Charlotte Ponticelli
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/19419.htm
http://www.uniw.org/NIW%20newsletter%20Fall%202002.pdf