Bush's War on Women Is a War on Science

By Caryl Rivers, AlterNet
Posted on July 20, 2007, Printed on July 20, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/57381/

The veil over the Bush administration's war on women's reproductive health was pulled back recently by the president's own former surgeon general. When Richard H. Carmora told Congress he was muzzled by the administration when he wanted to speak out on issues of sex and science, he highlighted one of the news media's major failures over the past seven years.

The ideological matrix into which the administration has tried to cram science policy should have been one of the biggest stories in the nation. But the press failed its women readers in particular (and their children).