Salon.com > Cathleen Miller http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The sacrificial lambs http://www.salon.com/2004/10/04/women_health/ http://www.salon.com/2004/10/04/women_health/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:37:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion//feature/2004/10/04/women_health The Bible makes many references to the use of "sacrificial lambs," young animals offered up to God to atone for the sins of the people. You may have thought this practice had fallen out of favor, but it seems George W. Bush has resurrected the sacrificing of the innocent to atone for his political sins.

However, his offerings are disproportionately of one gender: girls and women from the planet's poorest nations. By his decision to cancel aid for three years in a row to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), which supports the reproductive health rights of women around the world, he has willingly sacrificed millions of innocent female lives. This was made abundantly clear by global healthcare professionals at the recent Countdown 2015 conference in London, which examined the progress of the U.N.'s watershed Cairo summit on population and development in 1994.

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