This disgusts me.
President Bush's efforts to broaden a widely respected, bipartisan program to fight the spread of AIDS in Africa have faced roadblocks by seven Republican senators.
Bush had hoped that Congress would pass legislation to spend $50 billion to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis primarily in Africa in time for the Group of Eight summit in Japan next month. However, the seven socially conservative senators, led by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., refuse to support the legislation unless spending focuses more heavily on treatment than on prevention.
In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the seven senators — Coburn, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana — criticized the bills' increased spending over the next five years from $15 billion to $50 billion, the expansion of AIDS funding to countries such as China and India and the inclusion of funding for agricultural-assistance and poverty-alleviation programs.
"The bills' support would allow morally questionable activities, including advocating with host governments to change gender norms and policies and promoting activities that could include needle distribution to drug users," the senators wrote.
Apparently, for some people, preserving gender roles is more important than saving human lives. I'll never understand how these folks manage to claim the "pro-life" label, when they are clearly anything but.
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Did you see the comments?
"Africa has NEVER solved its own problems. OK, you can stop yatting about how they were all caused by Whites...that ended half a century ago. (Probably the least productive thing Mugabe did was to throw the White farmers Out!)Meanwhile, we have AIDS right here in the US, along with MANY other problems. We have spent decades and billions trying to help Africa. We should not be giving massive handouts to other countries while our own people go without."
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