Short Takes: News From All Over: February 24, 2005

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Reasons to Jeer
By Corrie Pikul, Womensenews.org
Women's eNews notes that while America just celebrated National Condom Week, the Bush Administration has increased its funding for 'abstinence-only education' by $30 million, bringing the total abstinence-only budget allocation for 2005 to $130 million. In addition, the Bush administration has cut $34 million annually since July 2002 to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), which works to ensure women's education, healthcare, and reproductive rights around the world. What's more, the UNFPA website notes that the Bush administration did not endorse the UNFPA plan because it mentions 'sexual rights.' -- Barb Jacobs
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2191/context/outrage
http://www.unfpa.org/news/coverage/october9-15-2004.htm

Bush Says Happy Valentine's Day with a Dozen Dreadful Judicial Re-Nominees
By Linda Berg, NOW.org
The National Organization for Women's website believes concerned citizens should closely track judicial nominations for the Federal Court of Appeals because federal circuit courts see almost 30,000 cases a year and their rulings have far reaching implications. The day after Valentine's Day, NOW says George Bush revealed his feelings about women, people of color, people with disabilities, and environmentalists when he re-nominated 12 especially conservative circuit court judges. The list includes: Janice Rogers Brown (D.C. Circuit Court), who claims that social security is unconstitutional and has accused senior citizens of 'blithely cannibalizing their grandchildren;' David W. McKeague (Sixth Circuit Court), who dismissed a Justice Department request to investigate allegations that female prisoners in Michigan were being abused and raped by male guards; and William H. Pryor (Eleventh Circuit Court), who said that Roe v. Wade was 'the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law' and voted against the Voting Rights Act, the Family and Medial Leave Act, the Violence Against Women Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the Clean Water Act. -- Barb Jacobs
http://www.now.org/issues/legislat/nominees/021505renominations.html

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