Right-Wing Packs
Education Bill with Conservative
AmendmentsRight-Wing lawmakers are
attempting to pack the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act with anti-abortion and anti-gay
amendments. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) has offered two
anti-abortion amendments – one requiring parental
consent for the distribution of emergency contraception
in school-based health centers, the other eliminating
funding to any school that offers emergency
contraception (the “morning after pill”) to students. A
coalition of health care organizations including the
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the
American Public Health Association and the American
Academy of Pediatrics, has sent a letter to US senators
urging them to oppose the parental consent amendment.
Helms has also proposed an anti-gay amendment that would
ban funding to US schools that refuse to offer
facilities to Boy Scout troops because of their anti-gay
policies (More: http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=1413).
The Human Rights Campaign, while criticizing the
measure, points out that federal law already mandates
equal access to school facilities for Boy Scout troops.
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