The Religious Right Is Now Starting To Take Their Hits Globally. Soon More Countries Will Start To Protest And Refuse The Meddling Religious Fervor That Has Been Injected Into Our International Policies.

Brazil spurns US terms for Aids help Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration's massive Aids
By John Amato — May 3, 2005

Brazil spurns US terms for Aids help

Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration's massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries...read on The demand from the US administration, heavily influenced by the religious right, follows what is known as the "global gag" - a ban on US government funds to any foreign-based organisation which has links to abortion. This has resulted in the removal of millions of dollars of funding from family planning clinics worldwide....

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