Security Moms Should Look Closely at Bush

[cal04]

Security moms, the women who are said to be sliding over into President Bush's camp out of fear for the safety of their children, should take a better look at the man who is courting them.

George W. Bush is so unsympathetic to women that his first act in office was to reinstate the Reagan era's so-called "Global Gag Rule," under which foreign family planning agencies may not receive U.S. assistance if they provide abortion services, including counseling or referrals on abortion, even if they do so with their own funds.

For the past three years the Bush administration has also denied $34 million annually in funding for the U.N. Population Fund, which provides birth control, maternal and child health care, and HIV/AIDS prevention services for women in some of the world's most impoverished regions. This money could have prevented an estimated 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000 induced abortions and 4,700 maternal deaths, as well as 77,000 infant and child deaths each year.

So before they're lured into Bush's bubble world of faux security, these women should ask if he really has what it takes to help keep them and their children safe:

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[Warpy]

1. They should also consider economic security

They're in far graver danger from Bush bungling on economic issues than they or their children are from some crazed Arab terrorist. We know Bush will continue to hurt working people and their children; another terra attack, should one materialize, will hurt relatively few in comparison.

There are all sorts of security. Trading economic security in favor of the illusion of protection from a statistically negligible threat is just plain stupid.

[MissMarple]

2. And the "homeland" is not secure.

Airport security is easy to circumvent, as has been recently reported in the press, our national guards and reserves are stressed, our borders are porous, only a small fraction of the containers coming into this country are checked leaving our ports vulnerable, chemical factories and nuclear plants are not protected. We may be faced with a draft just to keep the armed forces going, and George&Co sees more war on the horizon.

We went to war on the cheap, on falsified and dubious data. We have created a less secure, indeed, a far more dangerous world than we had before George Bush started mucking things up.

George cannot protect us. He wants us to protect him.