NARAL Pro-Choice America is demanding President Bush unite the country in support of nine bills it claims would prevent unintended pregnancies and reduce the need for abortion.
NARAL claims the legislation would bridge the pro-abortion/pro-life divide by helping women prevent unintended pregnancies. The bills deal with condom-based sex education, increased funding for abortion providers and forcing pharmacists to dispense the so-called morning-after pill in spite of objections that it can sometimes cause an early abortion.
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, called the bills dangerous.
"It's dangerous because it would quadruple the amount of funding going to organizations like Planned Parenthood," she told Family News in Focus.
Ann Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, also objected to giving more tax dollars to abortionists.
"There's no lack of family-planning services, and there's also no proof that family-planning services have done anybody any good," she said. "They've been available for 50 years, and we have weaker family structure in this country than we've ever had."
According to NARAL, a major goal is "honest, realistic sex education" in the schools, but Libby Macke, director of Project Reality, called that a smokescreen. She said it's all about getting more money for a faulty idea.
"They don't say anything about the lack of proof of effectiveness of comprehensive sex-ed," she said.
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