How many dead babies will satisfy the White House?

Bush has done it again--withheld another $25 million from the United Nations Population Fund. According to the agency, the money could have prevented 1.5 million unwanted pregnancies and 588,000 abortions worldwide, but the White House needed to throw some red meat to its right-wing Christian base.

The Bush administration has now denied over $90 million to the fund because of reports that the fund is connected to a Chinese program that forces women to have abortions. The U.N. has denied any such connection.

This latest act is just part of an overall scheme that denies funding to any facility in which abortion might be mentioned as an intervention for women and girls. Unwanted pregnancies because of rape (which is rampant in some of the cultures in question) and the horrific spread of AIDS do not move either the White House goons or the Christian fundamentalists who support them.

If you want to talk about morality, here's a good jumping-off point, a piece originally published in Online Journal.