U.S. Deletes, Alters Gender Issue Web Data -Report

[Czar]

http://news.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4977467

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has stripped information on a range of women's issues from government Web sites, apparently in pursuit of a political agenda, researchers reported on Wednesday.

"Vital information is being deleted, buried, distorted and has otherwise gone missing from government Web sites and publications," Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, said in a telephone interview.

"Taken cumulatively, this has an enormously negative effect on women and girls."

A council report said the missing information fell into four categories: women's health; their economic status; objective scientific data; and information aimed at protecting women and girls and helping them advance.

The deletions and alterations appear to hew to a political agenda, rather than providing the nonpartisan, unbiased data that has been the tradition of U.S. government reports, the council said.

Its report cited a fact sheet from the Centers of Disease Control that focused on the advantages of using condoms to prevent sexually transmitted disease; it was revised in December 2002 to say evidence on condoms' effectiveness in curbing these diseases was inconclusive.

The National Cancer Institute's Web site was changed in 2002 to say studies linking abortion and breast cancer were inconsistent; after an outcry from scientists, the institute later amended that to say abortion is not associated with increased breast cancer risk.

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

...guess the rally they held last week was pretty effective, then.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
...guess the rally they held last week was pretty effective, then.

This does show the need for the rally now doesnt it?

 

[xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: xxxxxJohnGaltxxxxx
...guess the rally they held last week was pretty effective, then.

This does show the need for the rally now doesnt it?

If you say so...but I've found rallies to have the opposite effect than proponents had in mind...IMF rallies, war rallies, now this rally...perhaps they'll be more effective when someone who governs by polls take office.

 

[kage69]

We decry the treatment of women overseas, yet make moves to squash their liberty at home.
All hail the evangelical theocracy of Bush! :disgust:

 

[Jhhnn]

If you say so...but I've found rallies to have the opposite effect than proponents had in mind...IMF rallies, war rallies, now this rally...perhaps they'll be more effective when someone who governs by polls take office.

Funny, they seemed to work in the Sixties.

And we'll see how Dubya does after the big poll in November- Pandering to his base will only carry him just so far, and campaigning to the middle, given his record, would make him appear more than slightly insincere...

 

[Gaard]

retaliation?

 

[babylon5]

Republicans declare war on women

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: babylon5
Democrats declare war on womens wombs

Sure ya wanna play this game pal!? Wanna talk about the era and who fought it?

 

[DealMonkey]

Yup, condoms don't stop STDs - that's just a myth propogated by the liberal media. In fact, you're twice as likely to get an STD when using a condom. Yup. Better stick to abstinence girls -- or diddle yourself furiously under the covers. Oops did I say that out loud?

 

[SagaLore]

I want to see the before and after content.

This is hearsay.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Yup, condoms don't stop STDs - that's just a myth propogated by the liberal media. In fact, you're twice as likely to get an STD when using a condom. Yup. Better stick to abstinence girls -- or diddle yourself furiously under the covers. Oops did I say that out loud?

Let's go with that one!