Bush (Abortion, Punishing the Impoverished) 

FACT: Bush re-imposes a ban on federal funds for overseas groups that perform or advocate abortions, or lobby governments to ease access to abortion. At issue is about $425 million used by overseas organizations in developing countries to promote family planning, nutrition and counseling. He also orders a review of the government's approval of the RU-486 abortion pill. 

Bush (Faith-Based Initiative, Abortion, Lies, Bigotry) 

FACT: In a meeting with Catholic groups, Bush inadvertently announces over an intercom to the entire White House that the Faith-Based Initiative plan would help them fund their anti-abortion activities. Karl Rove holds secret meetings this month with the Salvation Army offering to let them discriminate legally against gays if they would support the plan. 

COMMENT: So, the faith-based initiative is merely a covert funding scheme for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.

Pat Robertson (Hypocrisy, Abortion, Women's Rights) 

FACT: Appearing on CNN Robertson spoke regarding China's policy of forced abortion: "Well, you know, I don't agree with it, but at the same time, they've got 1.2 billion people and they don't know what to do,'' said Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition. "If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable... so I think that right now they're doing what they have to do." Pat does note that forced abortion may not necessarily be a good thing: since it's usually female babies that are aborted, the Chinese may soon face "a critical shortage of wives. The young men won't have any women to marry, so it will, in a sense, dilute the - what they consider the racial purity of the Han Chinese. And that to them will be a great tragedy, because then they will have to be importing wives from Indonesia." 

COMMENT: So leet’s see, according to Pious Pat we must have forced abortions for foreigners and absolutely no abortions for US citizens. I see. It doesn’t matter to Pat whether a woman has an abortion or not as long as she has non say in the matter.

Tommy Thompson (Lies, Spin) 

FACT: Tommy Thompson announced to the Conservative Political Action Conference that pregnant women would be eligible for prenatal care under a government health care program for children. Note that since the beginning of time conservatives have been steadfastly opposed to government health care programs for children; everyone at the Conference thought this was great news. All it took was a tiny little uncontroversial regulatory change that makes an "unborn child" eligible for care. When people questioned why the administration didn't just extend benefits to "pregnant women" instead of "unborn children," Thompson retorted "All we're doing is providing care for poor mothers so their children are going to be born healthy ... How anybody can now turn this into a pro-choice or pro-life argument, I can't understand it." 

COMMENT: Of course this is a transparent attempt to use health care as a foot-in-the-door to overturning Roe v. Wade. In addition, the mysogonistic proposal that the mother’s health should be ignored (ex: by not offering necessary post-pardom care) just gives us further evidence of true conservative priciples. I think Democratic Undeground.com hit the nail on the head when they said, “I guess I'm just so surprised that the conservatives have embraced government health care all of a sudden. Perhaps if we had re-classified adults as ‘post-born fetuses’ then we could have passed the Clinton health care bill.” 

Claude Allen (Abortion, Women's' Rights, Despicable behavior) 

FACT: Claude A. Allen is named Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. Allen has been criticized as Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources because he said, "abortion was a sticking point" in implementing Virginia's Children's Health Insurance Program. Allen said the federal Health Care Financing Administration, which provides two-thirds of the money for the program, wanted Virginia to allow abortion coverage in instances of rape and incest, rather than just when the life of the mother is endangered.

COMMENT: Apparently Mr. Allen has no problems with rape and incest. Ahhhhh. Conservative values working for us all.