Louise Slaughter: “along with my Democrat women colleagues, I want to express my outrage at the Bush administration's way to wage…”

“along with my Democrat women colleagues, I want to express my outrage at the Bush administration's way to wage devastating war on women from the first day he took office. The women in America knew from the past 4 years that ``W'' is for War on Women, and the two reports that my colleague the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky) discussed highlight this fact. I would also like to mention another report issued earlier this year by the Union of Concerned Scientists entitled ``Scientific Integrity in Policy Making and Investigation Into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science.'' This report documents the unprecedented manipulation, suppression, and misrepresentation of science across disciplines ranking from the environment and climate change to military intelligence and public health as well as attacks on issues that specifically affect women. As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science. As these three reports demonstrate, the President is clearly engaged in a war on women with particularly vicious attacks on women's reproductive rights.”