PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury. The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.
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 children's 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. Developing...
(h/t: The Drudgereport)
7 comments:
I can't believe it...well, actually I can, but it makes me very sad...
Amazing. Simply amazing.
Nancy, I have an award for you at my place. Hope your week goes as you plan. Re. this post, these days nothing shocks me anymore when it comes to the Govt. and those who represent "Us." I try to keep a positive attitude but then these things come up. We'll just have to pray that much harder.
I love, this... Obama says it wasn't his idea... he can't be held responsible for knowing everything in his stimulus package!
http://cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42546
I was thinking a lot about this last night. I spend a lot more and save a lot less every time I am pregnant and get ready to have another baby. Isn't that what they want :-)
And she proclaims to be Catholic... puke!!
"In 1921,Marie Stopes opened Britain's first "family planning" clinic, offering artificial contraception to married women of the lower classes in an attempt to control the population of the poor, whom she considered to be polluting the race."
Perhaps Pelosi has the same agenda! Who knows!
Excellent piece:)
Peace to you Nancy:)
Marie xoxooxo PS: I have written my own piece on Obama and Abortion.
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