Restricting funds by reinstating the "global gag rule" was a misstep for a compassionate conservative agenda.
Before Laspo, cases of false imprisonment were always funded by legal aid and restricting funding only to dishonesty cases was never the stated intention of parliament.
Restricting funds for family planning and reproductive health services around the world is indeed gagging the medical survival of needy women.
Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine known for forging compromises across party lines, was more explicit in calling for the language restricting funds to a Planned Parenthood affiliate in Puerto Rico to be dropped from the bill.
Lord Justice Fulford and Mrs Justice Lang, who heard the case, concluded that the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 had taken into consideration public concerns about restricting funding for victims of domestic violence.
Restricting funds to abstinence, and nothing more, makes it look as if the administration is more interested in showing that it shares the Christian Right's sexual squeamishness than in fighting AIDS.
It was only one of a series of proposals — including restricting funds for Syrian rebels and adding Congressional oversight to foreign aid to Egypt — intended to check President Obama's foreign and intelligence policies.
Another debate panelist, the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, agrees with restricting funding, but he cites different reasons.
Because Congress only recently loosened laws restricting funds for research involving embryos, scientists have focused their efforts on other sources.
When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding.
