The Senate is set to vote today on a bill that would provide contraceptives directly to international family planning clinics that have been denied funds under the Global Gag Rule. The bill, which passed the House in June, is a way to work around Republicans' objection that U.S. international family-planning funds could be used for abortions. (Sen. Sam Brownback has threatened to tack on an amendment stripping out the provision on contraceptives.)

Of course, Bush has promised to veto the bill -- even though he supposedly supports contraception for "responsible adults." He must not consider women in developing countries "responsible" or "adult" enough to be trusted with contraceptives.

Over on Tapped, Dana notes that "Republicans claim giving NGOs free condoms would encourage them to spend their resources on abortions instead." Seriously? Perhaps they'd have to devote far fewer resources to abortions if they could provide broader access to contraception.

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September 7, 2007 10:16 AM

[0+]  Jovan1984 said:

Never before have I seen such open misogyny by anti-choice extremists such as Brownback. The anti-choice are even more misogynistic than hip-hop artists.

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