Posted on 03/19/2011 7:17:52 PM PDT by topher
Montana lawmakers cut Planned Parenthood, family planning funding
by Peter Smith
Fri Mar 18 4:45 PM EST
HELENA, Montana, March 18, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Lawmakers in the Montana House of Representatives have moved to cut family planning money entirely from the state budget, denying local Planned Parenthood clinics a sizable chunk of state and federal funds.
The Missoulian reports that the GOP-run Montana House voted 53-47 last Friday to stop receiving $4.7 million per year in federal Title X family planning funds for the next two years. The cut would be added to another $1 million in state family-planning funding that both the state House and Senate voted to axe from the budget.
The measure will now go to the Republican-held Senate.
Rep. John Esp (R-Big Timber), one of the movers and shakers behind the effort to get family planning dollars out of the budget, told the Missoulian that contraception was “a matter of personal responsibility” and not the public’s concern or top priority.
If the measure makes it into law, it would also deprive Planned Parenthood of a key funding resource. According to the Missoulian, Planned Parenthood rakes in approximately half of the $5.7 million in public (state and federal) funds for contraceptive services.
“There are a lot of people out there who don’t like their tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood,” Rep. Wendy Warburton (R-Havre) told the newspaper. “When we’re having to make really tough cuts in other areas, I think they would resent their tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood.”
Warburton said that the House vote was a way to signal support for GOP efforts in Washington, D.C. to defund Planned Parenthood of federal money. She added that despite the billions that have been thrown at Planned Parenthood for contraception, there has been no substantial corresponding decrease in U.S. abortion rates.
Although the U.S. House of Representatives passed an historic amendment to a government funding bill that defunds Planned Parenthood of hundreds of millions of dollars in Title X money, the measure was rejected in the U.S. Senate earlier in March.
House Republicans later approved a three-week Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government until April 8 and avoid a government shutdown, without the amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. The Senate approved the measure, which now heads to the President.
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Ping. Good news post.
awesome! hope other states follow!
Good job Montana. Now other states follow suit.
Does this cut all Title X funding?? Not just to PP?
That would be good
Now cut Section 8, Medicare, Head Start and all the other racist redistribution programs that FedGov shoves down our throats.
FREE STATE WYOMING. Where are you?
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I do not believe that Medicare falls into this category - the Feds take the money right from our paychecks and will imprison you at gunpoint if you do not pay.
That one is the Feds baby, not the States, although you may be confusing it with MedicAID.
The Weather Channel is reporting a lot of gusty winds in Montana brought on by all the liberal’s heads spinning. Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana has been pushing hard for his plans to turn coal into oil. To demonstrate the feasibility of his plan, he stuck a lump of coal up his ass and clenched real hard. No oil came out, but he is claiming to have made a brown diamond.
A woman had to hang up her clothes? Oh, the horror!
(Yes, I know. A coat hangar is supposed to symbolize the imaginary millions of women who supposedly killed their babies themselves before Roe v. Wade made abortion mills a reality.)
The CDC and a former medical director of Planned Parenthood say otherwise.
In the year prior to Roe v. Wade (1972), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Sept. 4, 1992, Vol. 41, No. SS-5) that 39 women died from illegal abortion in the U.S.(24 died that year from legal abortions).
Mary Calderone, former medical director of Planned Parenthood, estimated in a July 1960 article from the American Journal of Public Health that 90% of all illegal abortions were performed by licensed physicians in good standing. She writes the following:
Mary Steichen Calderone. M.D., M.S.P.H., F.A.P.H.A.
"Fact No. 3- Abortion is no longer a dangerous procedure. This applies not just to therapeutic abortions as performed in hospitals but also to so-called illegal abortions as done by physician. In 1957 there were only 260 deaths in the whole country attributed to abortions of any kind. In New York City in 1921 there were 144 abortion deaths, in 1951 there were only 15; and, while the abortion death rate was going down so strikingly in that 30-year period,we know what happened to the population and the birth rate. Two corollary factors must be mentioned here: first, chemotherapy and antibiotics have come in, benefiting all surgical procedures as well as abortion. Second, and even more important, the conference [on abortion sponsored by Planned Parenthood] estimated that 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians. Call them what you will, abortionists or anything else, they are still physicians, trained as such; and many of them are in good standing in their communities. They must do a pretty good job if the death rate is as low as it. Whatever trouble arises usually arises from self-induced abortions, which comprise approximately 8 percent, or with the very small percentage that go to some kind of non-medical abortionist…So remember…abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous, because it is being done well by physicians."
Not to worry. Women needing to abort can just go to Alberta
There can be an underground railroad. The women can go from safe house to safe house till they get to Canada and abortion without limits
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