Women's Health Group: Bush Too Christian

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly explains why an international women's health group is complaining that President Bush is too conservative and too Christian.

Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute Vice President Douglas Sylva reports that international pro-abortion activists are very concerned about President Bush's "fundamentalist Christian ideology."

Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), has told the Fulbright Conference on Health and Foreign Policy in Berlin that the Bush administration is destroying international health care programs.

Charging that the Bush administration’s efforts are ruining the lives of women, the head of the prominent pro-abortion nongovernmental organization called on the nations of Europe to pressure the United Nations to "counter and redress harm done by current U.S. policies.”

Germain complained that the White House "supports and promotes only those civil society organizations that share and promote…its own fundamentalist Christian ideology, and its correspondingly rigid conservative world view.”

"The ideology of the White House," she warned, "extends far beyond abortion politics. In endangers condoms use and family planning…sexuality education, the human rights of women, religious tolerance, and even freedom of speech.”

Though the massive distribution of condoms throughout sub-Sahara Africa has done little to stem the spread of AIDS, Germain said she feared the failed program may be scaled back.

"Because faith-based groups that are against condom use - most often Roman Catholic and conservative Protestant groups – are by far the largest health service providers across sub-Saharan Africa and in Haiti," she contended," they will likely get most of the $8 billion allocated for HIV/AIDS treatment under the Global AIDS initiative.

"Imagine what this will do to condom access – and also what it will do for their ability to help the Bush administration impose its ideology on these countries and their citizens.”

In order to counter Bush's policies, Germain urged the European Union to rachet up its funding of U.N. agencies and begin to exert its influence.

"Europeans can take a firm stance in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights, as donors to and as executive board members of U.N. agencies, the World Bank, the Global Fund, and other international bodies,” she advised.