Editorial: Many women/Marching to choose, and to live

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"And the current occupant of the White House couldn't be more hostile to the notion of reproductive freedom. He favors virtually every proposal ever offered to make the right to choose meaningless -- and has audaciously snubbed the world's women by breaking a U.S. promise to give the United Nations Population Fund $34 million in international family-planning money. The cut-off has spurred millions of unwanted pregnancies and abortions -- and untold numbers of maternal deaths. The president's dreadful move has spurred the 34 Million Friends campaign (www.34millionfriends.org), now urging Americans to reach into their pockets to do for the world's women what the White House will not do itself."