Yahoo! News - Bush Broadens Global Abortion Gag Rule: "CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) ordered the State Department on Friday to withhold U.S. family planning help from overseas groups that promote or perform abortions with their own money. "

Streak and I actually understand the opposition to abortion--we think it is difficult to support given conservative worries about the state imposing on personal choice--but this is even harder to understand. If you believe in freedom, then why don't you let the marketplace decide? You put forward your argument about abortion and life and then try to convince people. But you shouldn't, as a conservative, restrict speech, should you? How do we export democracy by stifling speech? Of course, this has nothing to do with shoring up the right wing fundy base, does it?