Obama planning billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry

[Dos Equis]

Obama planning billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 12/18/2008 6:00:00 AM

A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion "bailout" of the abortion industry.

Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The report, titled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
 
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, is hoping a Republican-led effort in the Senate will block Obama's plan to substantially increase taxpayer funding of the abortion industry.
 
"This billion-dollar bailout of the abortion industry comes at a time, number one, when the economy is suffering dramatically with true need. And number two, it communicates an incredible depth of arrogance, especially when you consider that the vast majority of Americans -- men and women, no matter who you talk to -- they don't believe that people who don't believe in abortion should be funding it," she contends. "Most Americans don't believe that we should be funding abortions, especially in a time of economic crisis."
 
The Susan B. Anthony List has started a "Stop the Abortion Bailout" campaign designed to recruit thousands of activists to send letters to their senators "with the goal of securing the 41 votes necessary to sustain a Senate filibuster of the abortion bailout."

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[JOHN MATRIX]

who gives a shit

[Hedgehog]

Wouldn't abortions mean less unwanted births and less need for the government to spend welfare on young teens?

If you look at this strictly from an economical point of view for a minute.

Don't look at moral values.

I think it's pretty clear that funding abortion clinics will mean lower costs for the tax payers in the end.

I think the anti-abortion lobbyists are making a big mistake if they try to make this about economy, because that would probably favor the pro-choicers.

Instead they should focus on the moral issue.

[Mons Venus]

Obama planning billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 12/18/2008 6:00:00 AM

A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion "bailout" of the abortion industry.

Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.

 

[Straw Man]

I hope they take the $$$'s needed from the Office of Faith Based Initiatives.   

[JOCKTHEGLIDE]

Wouldn't abortions mean less unwanted births and less need for the government to spend welfare on young teens?

If you look at this strictly from an economical point of view for a minute.

Don't look at moral values.

I think it's pretty clear that funding abortion clinics will mean lower costs for the tax payers in the end.

I think the anti-abortion lobbyists are making a big mistake if they try to make this about economy, because that would probably favor the pro-choicers.

Instead they should focus on the moral issue.

BUSINESS STAND POINT,,,YES,,BUT BUESINESS ENDS SOMEWHERE,,,OR THEY BE NO MORALS,,

[bears]

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planned parenthood is a fine organization

[Dos Equis]

Wouldn't abortions mean less unwanted births and less need for the government to spend welfare on young teens?

If you look at this strictly from an economical point of view for a minute.

Don't look at moral values.

I think it's pretty clear that funding abortion clinics will mean lower costs for the tax payers in the end.

I think the anti-abortion lobbyists are making a big mistake if they try to make this about economy, because that would probably favor the pro-choicers.

Instead they should focus on the moral issue.

Hedge aren't you assuming that the mothers of most unwanted babies would be on welfare?  If so, on what do you base that assumption? 

I really don't believe that "unwanted" babies would be either abandoned or by and large born to welfare moms. 

[War-Horse]

Im against abortion.    But im for birth control.  Planned paarenthood offers contraception to teens who wouldnt have used it otherwise.  (i wont argue about bad parenting and all else)

i think they do more than just abortions there.....

[bears]

Im against abortion.    But im for birth control.  Planned paarenthood offers contraception to teens who wouldnt have used it otherwise.  (i wont argue about bad parenting and all else)

i think they do more than just abortions there.....

they also offer a safe haven for 13-14 year olds with 35 year old boyfriends who hate wearing rubbers.  if the girl doesnt want to get her boyfriend in trouble for statutory rape, she has a place to go.