Posted on 01/27/2009 9:59:07 AM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- After a national pro-life outcry following news that Congressional Democrats placed a bailout for the Planned Parenthood abortion business in the economic stimulus bill, President Barack Obama has urged party leaders to remove it. Obama is expected to tell Congressional Republicans today during a meeting.
Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader John Boehner complained bitterly about the plan sending money to Planned Parenthood.
Boehner said there is no reason for an economic package to contain funds for the nation's largest abortion business by qualifying more people for family planning funds under Medicaid.
During a Friday House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Congressional Demcorats added a provision in the legislation that clears the way for expanded federal funding of contraceptives through Medicaid for those who aren't even poor.
A Clinton-era program allows states to seek a waiver to offer Medicaid “family planning” services -- including people who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. If they seek the waiver, the federal government matches the state funding with $9 for every $1. The panel eliminated the waiver requirement.
Under the new provision, all 50 states will now offer Medicaid “family planning” services (including contraception) with the federal government offering the same $9 to $1 match. Although the money doesn't fund abortions directly, it goes to Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, which would otherwise have to spend its own money on contraception.
Boehner is scheduled to host the president at a lunch today, where Obama is reportedly planning to tell him that he has asked Rep. Henry Waxman, a top pro-abortion Democrat and committee chair, to remove the Planned Parenthood funding provision from the bill.
Obama is reportedly agreeing to strike the provision.
Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the provision and appeared to indicate she though children were a burden to the economy.
"Well, the family-planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost," she said on ABC.
That drew guffaws from groups throughout the pro-life movement.
Pro-life advocates say the governmental funds free up Planned Parenthood dollars to promote and perform abortions that it would otherwise have to spend on family planning.
House Republican Leader John Boehner told LifeNews.com he is dismayed about the inclusion of the provision.
"Regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer-funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry, there is no doubt that this once little-known provision in the congressional Democrats’ spending plan has nothing to do with stimulating the economy and creating more American jobs," he said.
"How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives – how does that stimulate the economy? You can go through a whole host of issues that have nothing to do with growing jobs in America and helping people keep their jobs," he added.
Boehner said that as more people learn about "this revelation about the congressional Democrats’ plans to force taxpayers to subsidize contraception and the abortion industry, the American people" will be upset.
So if I steal $10,000 from you and then out of pity give you $20 to buy a meal, you’ll thank me for my kindness?
That’s whats going on here. The House Dems stuffed outrage after outrage in this awful bill, and this is just one tip of the iceberg.
“Obama translation: There are 10 other ways they can expand their pro-death agenda....and they’ll be less visible. Drop the subject for now, and we’ll do it another way.”
Obama has alrady signed off on US funding for abortions overseas. And Pelosi’s Planned Parenthood payoffs can be hidden in some other appropriations in due course.
“Everybody is on fire about the Freedom of Choice Act that hasn’t even been introduced for this year yet.
I am not going to freak out about that until it actually BECOMES legislation under consideration, not just a theory.”
Right.
The #1 threat right now is the stimulus bill, which is a trillion dollar deficit spending payoff to every single liberal constituency. Once they pass that, they will have enough power to keep abortion mills running, etc.
He’ll do it some other less visible way. Pelosi is his stalking horse. She says something, he waits to see the reaction.
He’s into trying to appear “moderate” now. That’s from the Alinsky rule book. But everything he doesn’t do publicly with great fanfare, he later does quietly and the result is the same. Keep your eye on this one.
Obama will have this funding moved to another bill, and it will pass.
The #1 threat right now is the stimulus bill, which is a trillion dollar deficit spending payoff to every single liberal constituency. Once they pass that, they will have enough power to keep abortion mills running, etc.
I agree. I can’t stress how vigorously we need to fight this bill.
I don’t think Obama gives a rat’s you know what about Dem dogma...he is a politician. Democrat pols who are black succeed. GOP pols who are black often do not succeed. I think his interests lie in economic and foreign policy-not social issues.
Make your list. Check it twice or more. Then vote in 2010.
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