Monday, March 27, 2006
Another Side to Abortion 1/10/06
Dear Editor,
An ethical dilemma? Another Side to Abortion.
The U.S. Territories Northern Marianas Islands have weaker labor laws than we have on the Mainland, due to Jack Abramoff’s lobbying and Tom DeLay’s actions. Abramoff gave nearly $9 million in lobbying money to stop the House from strengthening those laws. Now happy garment industry owners bring in Chinese and Asian labor, keep them behind barbed wire, in rat infested labor camps where they work for 12 hours a day and are paid $3.05 an hour, even though the products they make say ‘Made In America’. Some are forced into prostitution.
Abramoff invited DeLay and his family to a fun 1997 New Year’s trip. While there, DeLay approved these immigrants working and living conditions. ABC News shows DeLay complementing these factories as a model of capitalism.
So bad were these working conditions that in 2000 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill, but DeLay, as House Republican Whip, stopped the U.S. House from even considering it.
So here is the ethical rub! ABCNews 20/20 investigation finds that if a woman gets pregnant there, they are made to have an abortion. There are 11,000 Chinese women and no babies.
An ethical dilemma? Another Side to Abortion.
The U.S. Territories Northern Marianas Islands have weaker labor laws than we have on the Mainland, due to Jack Abramoff’s lobbying and Tom DeLay’s actions. Abramoff gave nearly $9 million in lobbying money to stop the House from strengthening those laws. Now happy garment industry owners bring in Chinese and Asian labor, keep them behind barbed wire, in rat infested labor camps where they work for 12 hours a day and are paid $3.05 an hour, even though the products they make say ‘Made In America’. Some are forced into prostitution.
Abramoff invited DeLay and his family to a fun 1997 New Year’s trip. While there, DeLay approved these immigrants working and living conditions. ABC News shows DeLay complementing these factories as a model of capitalism.
So bad were these working conditions that in 2000 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Murkowski worker reform bill, but DeLay, as House Republican Whip, stopped the U.S. House from even considering it.
So here is the ethical rub! ABCNews 20/20 investigation finds that if a woman gets pregnant there, they are made to have an abortion. There are 11,000 Chinese women and no babies.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 5:28 PM 
