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Compassion, with strings.

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The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Saturday, March 8:

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The suffering of Africans with AIDS is being prolonged by political disputes in Washington over abortion.

The delay is unnecessary and immoral.

In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush pledged $15 billion to help fight AIDS in Africa. It was a grand, if unexpected, gesture designed to underscore the compassion in his conservatism.

But congressional action is necessary to release that money. Lawmakers are bogged down on a question that is _ or should be _ peripheral to the dire suffering of millions of men, women and ...

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