"Dubya" doesn't stand for women

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by Allison MacMunn- Indiana Statesman
September 08, 2004

>>>Most startling, Bush has slashed the 2005 funding to the Violence Against Women Act by $22 million. This act rewards grants to agencies that assist victims of violence and hold perpetrators accountable.

>>>Being opposed to abortion, Bush is desperately trying to take a woman's right to choose away from her. While a person may be opposed to abortion for his or her own personal or religious beliefs, I believe that it is important for a woman to have the right to choose based on her own beliefs. As we live in America, we all do have our own beliefs.

>>>On an international level, Bush declined to fully fund the AIDS initiative after promising to do so. The final cuts that resulted were over $2 billion.

>>>Despite pledges that the United States supports international family planning funding, Bush revived the Global Gag Rule, which denies U.S. funds to international family planning groups that use their own money for abortion counseling, services or lobbying activities that are legal within their own countries.

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