Only 16 Republicans Opposed Bush's $50B Global AIDS Bill

In another sign of the leftward drift of the national Republican Party, only 24 Republican senators voted on Tuesday for an amendment to the global AIDS bill to prohibit AIDS funds from being used to pay for forced abortions and sterilizations in Communist China. The $50 billion legislation, which was still being debated on the Senate floor, has the support of Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, as well as organizations associated with his financial backer, billionaire leftist George Soros. [Only 16 Senators, all conservative Republicans, voted against the massive $50 billion global AIDS spending bill (S. 2731) when it came up for a vote on Wednesday night. The final vote was 80-16 with Senators Barack Obama and John McCain, both original sponsors of the bill, on the campaign trail and not available to cast a vote on the Senate floor.] While the bill purports to save lives, primarily through the use of controversial anti-AIDS drugs, DeMint noted that the bill funnels a large amount of money into a U.N.-affiliated agency that is complicit in the killing of unborn children.
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Posted by Editor at July 18, 2008 09:57 AM