AP - US Conservatives Step Up Activities Overseas

[Rose Siding]

NEW YORK -- From Peru to the Philippines to Poland, U.S.-based conservative groups are increasingly engaged in abortion and family-planning debates overseas, emboldened by their ties with the Bush administration and eager to compete with more liberal rivals.
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"We don't expect to see the United Nations change, or Western Europe change," said Joseph d'Agostino of the Population Research Institute, a Virginia-based anti-abortion group. "But with the Bush administration, pro-lifers feel there's a real opportunity to stop the U.S. government from promoting abortion and sex education and population control in the Third World."

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America said U.S. conservatives are trying to counter the influence long exercised by women's rights and abortion rights groups at U.N. conferences and among international non-governmental organizations.

"NGOs have tremendous power, but for so many years they have been the playground for the leftist activists," Crouse said. "It's only been during the Bush administration that those of us from the right have had an opportunity to be on a level playing field."
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"The collaboration of right-wing NGOs and the Bush administration far exceeds any collaboration between pro-choice family groups and the Clinton administration," said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice. "We never had that kind of hand-in-glove relationship."

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[...of J.Temperance]

1. These freaks are just like a virus...a cancerous virus at that n/t

[Demeter]

2. What If Their "Product" Doesn't Sell?

It's not like the developing countries haven't already got the "do-nothing" suppliers and the wacko religious fundamentalism promoters. They've lived longer with the problem than the US, which until recently, was a little more progressive and activist in solving real problems for real people.

In order to sell American brand recidivism, you would first have to get out of the Stone Age, the Age of Epidemic, the Age of Oligarchy, and the Age of Poverty through Industrialixation, Public Health and Public Education, and then overshoot into Upper Middle Class Leisure, Spread and Sloth, coupled with Undeserved Entitlement and Envy of Earned Wealth and Power, Cronyism and Corruption.