abortions and birth control should not only be available on demand they should be paid for with tax money !
On Jan 26, 6:25 am, Ohio mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth > control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming > "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal > government." > > Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, > "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to > imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury. > > The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS > WEEK. > > STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family > planning services. How is that stimulus? > > PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce > cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of > what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements > are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one > of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs > to the states and to the federal government. > > STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that? > > PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the > downturn in our economy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
