"While [Obama] agrees that greater access to family planning is good policy, the president believes that the funding for it does not belong in the economic recovery and reinvestment plan," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs according to Steve Erlet of LifeNews.com
Conservative Outcry
Erlet reported that Republican leaders, including House Minority Leader John Boehner complained bitterly about the plan sending as much as $200 million to Planned Parenthood, with Boehner saying there is no reason for an economic package to contain funds for the nation's largest abortion business by qualifying more people for family planning funds under Medicaid. Boehner also told LifeNews.com he is dismayed about the inclusion of the provision.
"Regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer-funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry, there is no doubt that this once little-known provision in the congressional Democrats’ spending plan has nothing to do with stimulating the economy and creating more American jobs," he said.
"How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives – how does that stimulate the economy? You can go through a whole host of issues that have nothing to do with growing jobs in America and helping people keep their jobs," he added.
Boehner said that as more people learn about "this revelation about the congressional Democrats’ plans to force taxpayers to subsidize contraception and the abortion industry, the American people" will be upset.
And Prizez for Life
While President Obama discreetly rescinded The Mexico City Policy on Friday, thereby allowing funding for foreign abortions, 1200 of the Pro-life contingent celebrated the work of six activists in the movement at The Life Prizez banquet: Jill Stanek, Richard Doerflinger, Kay Coles James, Peggy Hartshorn, Lila Rose, and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Life Prizes is designed to reward a broad range of pro-life activists with $600,000 in prize money split between up to six winners, annually.
Jill Stanek is the nurse who held an infant left to die from a botched abortion and fought hard for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Hartshorn has helped countless mothers and children through her pregnancy resource center. Rose, still a student at UCLA, went undercover and did an expose of Planned Parenthood, proving illegal inner workings of a local clinic by posing as an underage girl seeking an abortion. Clinic workers reportedly told Rose to lie about her age in order to have an abortion, according to Human Events.com.
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