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Article: Bush cripples AIDS initiative with global 'gag rule'.(Church)
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- Catholic New Times
- Article date:
- May 4, 2003
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I WAS STUNNED and delighted when President George W. Bush announced in his State of the Union address that he planned a major commitment to fighting AIDS. A five-year, $15 billion program of treatment and care for those infected and even some modest support for condom education and distribution--it sounded like something that I, a fairly reliable critic of this administration, might have proposed myself. Could it be that I would be able to halt my barrage of letters to the president and to Secretary of State Colin Powell attacking their assault on family planning, their reneging on support for the UN Population Fund, and their "faith-based initiative," which would ...