Federal funds have been paying for abortion all along.
Planned Parenthood has received hundreds of millions of dollars for contraception and this has simply allowed them to lower the price of abortions. The government has allowed Big Murder to operate under the absurd assumption that contraception and abortion are two separate and distinct businesses and this is a total falsehood. It would be like give Ford a billion dollars and telling them they could only use it for cars, not trucks or SUVs.
Depending on your personal, moral, and/or religious perspective, you may already be paying for abortion with your taxes:
All military health facilities offering emergency contraceptives (By William H. McMichael - Staff writer)
Every military treatment facility and health clinic must now stock pills that can prevent pregnancy if taken within three days of having sex.
The change comes as a result of a recommendation by a committee of Defense Department physicians and pharmacists. Commonly known as “morning-after pills,” the drug had been stocked at some, but not all, military treatment facilities, with the decision on whether to do so left up to local officials.
The Military Health System approved the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee’s November decision on Feb. 3, meaning that the pills must now be stocked in all military treatment facilities, said Cynthia Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman. Stocking will begin immediately, Smith said.
That includes bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon says.
The pills, which contain the hormone levonorgestrel, are known as the generics Plan B and the newer Plan B One Step, and by the trade name Next Choice.
Plan B is available over the counter for those age 17 and older; those who are younger must have a prescription. Military women serving at overseas locations must get it from a Defense Department dispensary.
The decision reverses a 2002 Bush administration decision to reject a committee recommendation to make the drug available to military women.
That decision had been partially reversed in 2006 after the Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B for sale without a prescription. The drug was then added to the Uniform Formulary, a list of drugs covered by the Tricare medical plans but that are optional items to have in stock in military facilities.
The Pentagon committee voted 13-2 last fall to add it to the Basic Core Formulary, which is a list of drugs that must be carried at all full-service treatment facilities.
Although the drug already was widely available, the decision to make it universally so disappointed anti-abortion advocates, one of whom called the pill “a dangerous and controversial drug” and said that, in addition to usage amounting to legal abortion, it will “eviscerate” the protections afforded military health care providers who are allowed to decline to participate “directly or indirectly in medical procedures that they find morally or religiously objectionable.”
“It is important to remember that military members, including health care providers, will not be able to walk away from their duties because they object to ‘emergency contraception,’ ” said Denise Burke of Americans United for Life. “Forced to violate their consciences, many military providers will leave the military when their service contracts expire, endangering quality of care and military readiness.”
Abortion rights advocates supported the decision. “We applaud the Pentagon for ensuring that every woman honorably serving our country and the spouses of military personnel stationed around the world will have access to the same basic reproductive health care available to women in the United States,” said Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. “This latest decision is … another step toward ensuring every woman has the ability to prevent unintended pregnancy and plan healthy families.”
http://www.armytimes.com/benefits/health/military_emergency_contraception_bases_021610w/