George W. Bush, the infamously anti-gay and neoconservative former U.S. president who invaded Iraq on a lie, has criticized congressional Republicans for threatening to defund the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a largely successful African HIV-prevention program that he launched back in 2003. “There is no program more pro-life” than PEPFAR, he wrote.
Though PEPFAR is estimated to have saved over 25 million lives, its funding is set to expire on September 30. Congressional Republicans are falsely claiming that the program promotes abortion and using its re-funding as a bargaining chip in budget negotiations. Republicans have threatened to defund the entire federal government at the end of the month unless they’re allowed to slash military diversity programs and military aid to Ukraine and to increase anti-immigration measures at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. To abandon our commitment now would forfeit two decades of unimaginable progress and raise further questions about the worth of America’s word,” Bush wrote in an a Wednesday opinion article in The Washington Post.
How dare modern republicans put me in even a situation where I have to agree with GW Bush.
They’re pro-birth. “Pro-life” is just marketing.
They aren’t pro-birth. If they were pro-birth they would be for universal healthcare coverage of birth expenses.
They are pro-controlling women’s bodies.
PEPFAR has been surprisingly successful and has been more successful now that it is no longer linked to pushing Christian values. Republicans can't have that though.
I’ve never actually met a Republican who was FOR life. They’re just FOR control.
They’re for whatever the fuck gets them corporate money, same as Democrats (to a lesser degree).
You know who else benefits from anti-abortion laws and lowering the working age requirements? Corporate businesses do.
Hey dumbass they ain’t prolife they’re procontrol of women’s body and reproduction.
aaand racist. They don’t want money going to help Africa. At all.
