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Model Gisele Buendchen defends abortion rights, attacks Bush
Jun 5, 2007, 17:57 GMT
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian top model Gisele Buendchen defended abortion rights and blasted US President George W Bush as 'awful' for the United States, in an interview published Tuesday.
In an interview published in the Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo, Buendchen also called the Catholic Church's opposition to condoms 'ridiculous.'
The blonde beauty, who is currently taking part in Rio de Janeiro's fashion week, Fashion Rio, rejected rumours that she is pregnant.
'The day I get pregnant, everyone will see it. Of course I want to have a family in the future. But not right now. Everything has its time, and now I am happy with my life,' she said.
Buendchen declined to comment on allegations that her boyfriend, American football star Tom Brady, favours Bush's Republican Party and is considering a future career in politics.
'He never told me about that, and I would not like to talk about him now,' she said.
Buendchen criticized the Bush administration in no uncertain terms.
'He was awful. It's enough just to look at what is happening nowadays because of him, how so many people came to hate the United States,' she said.
She also said she was in favour of liberalizing abortion legislation in Brazil.
'I am in favour of women doing whatever they want with their bodies,' she said. 'I went to an exhibition in New York which showed the inside of the human body and also the phases of pregnancy. Until four months into the pregnancy there is almost nothing, it's like a small grain.'
She insisted women should have the right to choose an abortion.
'If (a woman) thinks she has no money or emotional conditions to raise a child, how can she give birth? It is clear that prevention is best, but there are situations that go beyond a person's control,' Buendchen said.
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Sorry Ann, but that is just typical of a lot of Americans: Whenever being criticized, quite a number of you pull out some 'we don't like you anyway'-nationalist attitude. How contemptible!
And yes, of course, many people including myself who are not American (I am German) and who have spent a lot of time in your country studying in the past feel queasy about your government (what are you doing in Iraq???) and some symbolic issues like abortion which in the USA is a faith over facts issue.
Most Germans (and I guess Europeans in general) and obviously a number of Brazilians are open to discussion in that area. Since you are a country which makes a lot of noise, you should live with critique and try to respond rationally.
Best regards from Grenoble
Simon
who is this dopey dame and why should I care what a model thinks or says?
She's a model with a brain. Just because you don't agree with her does not mean she's stupid. What she said about Bush is correct. The world hates us. If you get bood at something as superficial as a beauty pageant, that should tell you how much people hate us. Don't even get me started on the church and their pedophile priests. The church like a lot of Americans do not live in reality.
As for Tom, Gisele started dating him after he and his girlfriend broke up. I know that because Bridget and her publicist announced their break up in Us Weekly as amicable in early december. Let me guess did the church say it's a sin to date a single guy now.?lol
Gisele,
Are you for genital mutilation of women in Africa. The women don't seem to be saying no to it and they, 'should be able to do anything they want with their bodies.'
As people thinking Bush is awful. Yes, some mistakes have been made and he is by no means a very good communicator, but if you look at a lot of his post 9/11 policies, they are not bad. 9/11 changed everything! What will it take for the rest of the world to realize that?
If the US stopped protecting shipping lanes for the rest of the world, what would happen. I guaranty that world peace would not be part of the fall out.
Simon,
Gisele e uma Gaucha de Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. Ella e alemana de descendencia e tem muitos dos mesmos pensamentos como voce. Nao significa que som corectos.
(Gisele is a cowgirl from Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. She is of German descent and has a lot of the same thoughts as you. That does not mean they are correct.
1. Abortion. A lot of Pro-abortion advocates do not think that abortion is always the best or least guilt ridden option for an unplanned pregnancy. Many would want you to weigh the moral aspects of the procedure. I think a majority of people from the USA agree with Clinton when he said,
'Americans believe deeply in the need to keep government out of private, personal matters. That is one reason why I am pro-choice. I believe we should all work to reduce the number of abortions. That is why I have worked to reduce teen pregnancy, remove barriers to cross-racial adoption, and provide tax credits to families willing to adopt. Still, I believe the ultimate choice should remain a matter for a woman to decide in consultation with her conscience, her doctor, and her God.
I am no fan of Clinton, but I respect his stand on abortion (Rare, but legal). On the other hand Bush doubled Clinton's tax credit for adoption which allowed my wife and I to adopt our second child. In other words I have George W. Bush to thank for the bundle of joy I wake up to every morning. Bless him and the horse he rode in on.
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AnnJun 5th, 2007 - 21:42:36
If Gisele feels that way about America, we would be happy to give her a free ticket back to Brazil. She isn't that well liked here anyway. She and Tom Brady or the two most dispicable people that I have ever seen.
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