1. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME)introduced and helped pass an amendment to the latest Department of Defense appropriations bill that would require the grossly negligent DoD to pay for abortions for military personnel, their spouses, and their dependents who have been raped or are victims of incest. It's one step in the right direction, but there is so much more to do on this issue...
2. Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY)'s remarkable opening statement at the FY2005 Foreign Operations Subcommittee Markup on June 23rd. Just in case you don't read through the whole thing, here's her rad chastisement of the Bush administration's continued failure to give funding to UNFPA.
I would like to register my displeasure that, once again, our bill fails to include language that will restore funding for the life-saving activities of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). I expect that there will be an amendment on this issue at Full Committee markup, and I hope my colleagues will support it.
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