"President Bush's $15 billion AIDS initiative proposal needs to be reworked," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League, "so it does not allow U.S. tax dollars to fund condom promotion or groups that promote promiscuity or abortion."
The first step in this process would be "to remove the abortion exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother from the Mexico City Policy," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a project of American Life League, "while expanding the policy to include any recipient of any U.S. foreign aid. (The current policy applies only to non-governmental organizations getting our so called 'family planning' dollars.) This improved Mexico City Policy would then apply to any groups getting money from the AIDS initiative. No one should get our tax dollars if they perform or promote abortion, no exceptions."
The next step in improving the Bush AIDS initiative "is to insure that it will not provide or promote condoms or any other form of contraception," Szymkowiak continued. "Furthermore, no money should be allotted to any entity that provides or promotes condoms or other forms of contraception. The money from this initiative should go toward providing antiretroviral drugs and promoting abstinence, not contraception."
Updated release issued: 7 Feb 03
