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[i.p.freely]

"Moralna wiekszosc" dlugo nie musiala czekac na hojnosc dluznikow, tj. dubya
and Co. Czas zbiorow nadszedl a plonem:

<snip>America's religious right has scored its first legislative victory
since George Bush's re-election by inserting a clause into a spending bill to
undermine state laws requiring hospitals to provide abortions.
The provision, a last-minute addition to a $388bn budget bill, was approved
by Congress without debate at the weekend in one of its last acts of this
legislative session. It is expected soon to be signed into law by President
Bush.

The passage of the bill caps a two-year campaign by Catholic bishops and anti-
abortion organisations to give legal cover to hospitals that refuse to
perform terminations, or to even refer women to abortion providers. The
country's largest anti-abortion group described the bill's passage as one of
its most important legal victories.

The triumph for the religious right was condemned by Democratic senators and
women's activists as a clandestine attempt to chisel away at abortion rights.
Few members were even aware of the clause when the bill was brought to
Congress on Saturday, and by then it was too late to block it.

"This statute was proposed numerous times in Congress, and it never succeeded
as an independent piece of legislation," said Linda Rosenthal, a director at
the Centre for Constitutional Rights. "Now they have come back at the 11th
hour and tucked a rider on to an appropriations bill. It is absolutely a
stealth effort to undermine abortion. It is not transparent, and it is not
above board."

After an uproar from Democrats, it was agreed that the Senate would hold a
vote to repeal the measure in April. Until then women's activists were trying
to assess what impact the measure would have on those seeking abortions.
Although US women have a guaranteed right to legal abortion under the supreme
court's landmark Roe v Wade verdict, hospitals and insurance companies are
not compelled to provide the service, and individual doctors can refuse to
perform abortions as a matter of conscience....<>

www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1358100,00.html
Jeszcze troche a bedziemy mieli oficjalna panstwowa religie.

Ale do rzeczy. Moim zdaniem (tu podkreslam, ze jestem osobnikiem przynaleznym
do "niemoralnej mniejszosci"), gdyby "moralnej wiekszosci" RZECZYWISCIE
zalezalo na ograniczeniu, bo nie rozwiazaniu problemu aborcji, jako ze ten
nie jest rozwiazalny, to w pierwszym rzedzie powinni zajac sie legislacja
edukacji seksualnej wsrod mlodzierzy szkolnej. Jak ta edukacja wyglada w tej
chwili, nie wspomne.

Nie wsponme tez o proponowanych zmianach w podrecznikach:
www.his.atr.jp/~ray/textbook/WashingtonPost.htm
Przydaloby sie tez uproscic proces adopcji - ale to juz inna para kaloszy bo
zygota stala sie czlowiekiem a nam, "moralnej wiekszosci", tylko interesy
zygty leza na sercu.