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Saturday, October 04, 2008

Family Values

Having rescued the American economy and made the world safe for Wall Street once again, the Bush administration has found time to attend to the moral aspect of its legacy by increasing abortions in Africa so that the Heathen Chinee may not profit from the United States government. The US Agency for International Development does not directly fund the supply of contraceptives to African family planning clinics, but it has now ordered its missions to "ensure that no [USAID-funded contraceptives from host country governments] are distributed to MSI at this time". MSI is Marie Stopes International which, according to USAID, "supports the Chinese national family planning programme"; as a result, MSI estimates that there will be another three hundred and twenty-five thousand unwanted pregnancies in six African countries. The Bush administration will presumably derive some satisfaction from the knowledge that only about sixty-five thousand of those pregnancies will be aborted, making a grand total of two hundred and sixty thousand children who will be wanted by no-one but God and the White House and will probably be fed by neither. Doubtless the Heathen Chinee are duly chastened also.

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