For women, there's no `there' there
ELLEN SAUERBREY'S and Arthur E. Dewey's letter "Bush's commitment to women" (April 3) tells us more with what it doesn't say than with what it does say. Like the administration, the letter omits mention of support for reproductive health care and services, but without these its praise for "reproductive health" is meaningless. It neglects to note that a third of the administration's funding for family planning is earmarked for programs of education in sexual abstinence, despite global shortfalls of contraceptives and safe motherhood supplies. And the letter boasts of funding women's programs in Afghanistan, but the sums are well below promised levels.
