Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi further endeared herself to Americans this morning on ABC’s This Week by claiming that “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
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STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for childrens’ health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
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I certainly believe in cost control and fiscal responsibility, but I think this is extreme and wrong. I don’t believe you would find many Americans who believe that reducing births will have an immediate enough impact to pull us out of the current recession. The original TARP provisioned dollars for wooden arrows and bike repair, and apparently now the lobbiests for birth control have also had their voices heard.
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