The Bush Administration (Women's Rights) 

FACT: The Bush Administration took the position that girls in war zones don't deserve recognition for the abuse that they suffer. The U.S. delegation for an upcoming UNICEF conference has sided with Sudan, Libya, and Iran on these human rights issues, apparently over fears that any recognition of abused girls would lead to counseling on birth control and abortion. The U.S. has said they won't support a conference resolution because it "encroaches on parental rights," and they "object to provisions against capital punishment or life imprisonment without parole for minors." Since the start of negotiations in February, the U.S. delegation has insisted on removing references to the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child, which has been UNICEF's driving force for the last ten years. The treaty was originally signed by Bill Clinton in 1995, and has since been ratified by all countries except the United States and Somalia. 

COMMENT: People wonder why the U.S. was removed from the UN Human Rights council. Well, here is at least one reason. Unfortunately, it seems that the importance of sending the message to the world that "freedom of choice is murder," supercedes that of young girls being raped and tortured.

George W. Bush (Women's Rights) 07/2002

FACT: It was revealed that George W. Bush will, under pressure from conservative pro-lifers, "slash millions of dollars of funding for a UN family planning program," according to the UK Guardian. The UN program assists women in more than 140 countries with family planning, HIV and Aids prevention, health and education.

Bush (Women's' Rights) 

FACT: Bush closes the White House Office on Women's Issues and refuses to discuss the closing. 

George W. Bush (Anti-Labor, Anti-Women, Corporate Interests, Lies) 

FACT: Bush repealed ergonomic safety regulations, which were 10 years in the making. Gregory A. Denier, spokesman for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, said the regulation would have prevented 600,000 injuries a year through such changes as better workstation design for chicken de-boners and meat packers. Martha G. Burk, chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, an umbrella for 120 groups representing 6 million people, said women suffer many ergonomic injuries from keyboard work and machine cleaning, and called the repeal "a slap in the face of women." 

COMMENT: Meanwhile, Bush claims that, "The safety and health of our nation's workforce is a priority for my administration."

Jesse Helms (Bigotry, Misogynist)

FACT: On Clinton-era HUD appointee Roberta Actenberg: "She's not your garden-variety lesbian. She's a militant-activist-mean lesbian." 

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.

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. 

D. Cameron Findlay (Woman's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: At a recent meeting of US Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick's labor advisory committee, Zoellick went to great lengths to explain how important women's empowerment was to him, and unveiled a long list of programs to help women workers around the world. Next, he turned to Deputy Secretary of Labor D. Cameron Findlay for an explanation of how Trade Adjustment Assistance had too often been ignored. Findlay: "TAA is treated like a teenage girl in the back seat of a car. You promise her anything to get what you want. And then when you get it, you leave her." According to the Washington Post, "The group, including five women union reps, was stunned. 

Kay O'Connor (Flatworlder, Stupidity, Women's Rights) 

FACT: Kansas state senator Kay O'Connor recently took the unusual step of denouncing the 19th Amendment when she was asked to appear at the Johnson County League of Women Voters' ''Celebrate the Right to Vote'' luncheon. She declined, telling organizer Delores Furtado that ''You probably wouldn't want me there because of what I would have to say.''  According to O'Connor, ''Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women (today) we wouldn't have to vote.'' Apparently O'Connor doesn't care much what her constituents think of this view. ''If I don't get re-elected, my only punishment is to go home to my husband and my roses and my children and my grandchildren.''

Chuck Yob (Woman's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: According to Republican National Committeeman Chuck Yob of Michigan, the GOP is a strong supporter of women who run for elected office. In fact, Yob thinks they're particularly well suited to be secretary of state because "they like that kind of work." Our sources tell us that Yob was shocked to learn that secretary of state isn't actually secretarial work. "Well, then," he said, "perhaps they'd be better suited as nurse of state, housewife of state, or stewardess of state." Ha ha ha ha. That crazy GOP produces such clever Mysoginists!

Crittenden, Lideen, Olson, and O'Beirne (Women's Rights, Stupidity)

FACT: Danielle Crittenden, Barbara Lideen, Barbara Olson, and Kate O'Beirne appeared in an article in Britain's Daily Telegraph to bemoan the rotten state of feminism in America. These four rich, privileged Republicans had the gall to ask America to "take back the vote - we've used it unwisely. We'd like to give it back to our husbands." They continued to explain that Bush would have won by a landslide if women hadn't been allowed to vote. This follow the same lardly-logic of the fatmaster himself, Rush "for the twinkies" Limbaugh who smartly pointed out that if Bush would have won by a landslide if blacks were not allowed to vote. Well, Rush, God knows Republicans attempted to do just that. The Florida disenfranchisement fiasco was but a small crumb on the racist GOP nazicake. 

COMMENT: This baffling desire to return to the stone ages is typical of the "Promise Keepers" cult of kooks who think women are effective only as maids, cooks, nannies and sexual objects. Me thinks they are in the minority, unfortunately, they are windbags of epic proportions with wealth to force their ideas on the unsuspecting populace. Read: Scaife, Coors, Moon, Murdoch.