A good summary. I’m going to have to sit down and do some thinking about how to oppose this sort of legislation -— because it’ll be politically difficult to do so, any opposition would be mocked and misrepresented at every turn,but it must be done.
One “trick” is “bloc grants”, on the “funding” items, with the language written generically - i.e “reproduction education efforts” - and the details left to the states.
The problem is that that method (a)does not remove the idea that the fed treasury is needed, and (b)dims in time try to convert the grants to specific federal programs.
We need to win on the philosophical argument of why is the fed govt needed for these efforts, in general, and the difficulty is that the state and local units are pleading poverty at the moment and Obama is willing to borrow till dooms day to “step in and help out”. As someone in his admin said recently, never let a crisis go to waste - or some such words.