Bush may spurn U.N. program

President Bush is poised to reject the advice of his own fact-finding team and cut off millions of dollars to a United Nations family planning program that abortion opponents contend supports forced abortions in China.

It doesn't. In fact, the fact-finding team contends that it reduces them through education and birth control. Given the anti-sex right's views on sex education and birth control, that didn't help any. This isn't about China, this is about the goofy political views of the GOP and the Religious Right, which are increasingly interchangeable.

The money has already been appropriated by Congress, but that won't stop the Bush Administration. As I've pointed out ad nauseum in the context of the Endangered Species Act, the administration only enforces the law when it wants to. Screw the financial stuff, as far as I'm concerned the real scandal is the administration's under-the-table attempt to seize the legislative function.