The real agenda: family planning
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD The Bush administration has steadily packed the U.S. Supreme Court with an eye toward overturning abortion rights, something that would surely be accomplished by the election of another anti-choice president. But more issues about women's rights, family planning and contraception are quietly moving toward critical junctures. While awaiting possible repeal of Roe v. Wade, the far right has quietly gained political momentum with Republican friendsfor what is a wider anti-contraception agenda. Witness the Bush administration's blocking of international family planning aid to groups that even mention abortion, talk of ending all federal funds for Planned Parenthood and a bizarre attempt to redefine contraception as abortion. So the choice issues in the coming election go far beyond abortion to promoting abstinence-only sex education, letting emergency contraception disappear in parts of this state and reducing support for family planning.
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