PRESIDENT BUSH TO NOMINATE ABORTION ADVOCATE TO KEY AMBASSADORSHIP 
President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Julie Finley, a strong pro-abortion advocate, as U.S. Ambassador to The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

The OSCE is engaged in setting standards in fields including human rights and humanitarian concerns as well as military security, and economic and environmental cooperation. In addition, the OSCE undertakes a variety of preventive diplomacy initiatives designed to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts within and among the participating states.

Because of on-going attempts to promote taxpayer funding of abortion and the distribution of abortion causing drugs overseas, we are concerned that, given her history of support for liberal abortion policies, she will be able to promote her pro-abortion views through the OSCE.

Julie Finley has served on the advisory board of the Republican Coalition for Choice, which works to remove the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform. She is a founding member of The WISH List, a Political Action Committee that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for pro-abortion-choice Republican women candidates since its inception in 1992. She is a member of the Republican National Committee.

Julie Finley is a major fundraiser for the Republican Party and has been recognized for her sizeable contributions with various appointments over the years. However, the position of Representative of the United States to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador, is the wrong message for the President to send, while talking at the same time about promoting a “culture of life” in America.

Please contact President George W. Bush – ask him to find another slot for Mrs. Finley, one that does not jeopardize our international pro-life policies.